Orientation to Patient Safety
Instructor:
Michael Astion, MD PhD
Contact Hours:
2.0
Date:
January 01, 2025 - January 31, 2027
Description:
Introduction to patient safety culture, patient injury investigation, and laboratory error and injury classification.
Learning Objectives:
- State 2 reasons why most labs do not have a patient safety culture.
- List 3 major findings from studies of patient safety.
- List 3 sources of cases of lab-related patient injuries.
- Describe the barriers to determining patient injuries and techniques for overcoming these barriers.
- Define cognitive and noncognitive errors.
- Characterize any case of lab-related injury (or potential injury).