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:
  1. State 2 reasons why most labs do not have a patient safety culture.
  2. List 3 major findings from studies of patient safety.
  3. List 3 sources of cases of lab-related patient injuries.
  4. Describe the barriers to determining patient injuries and techniques for overcoming these barriers.
  5. Define cognitive and noncognitive errors.
  6. Characterize any case of lab-related injury (or potential injury).