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Overview
The goal of this course is to understand risk management and suggest risk-reduction tools to mitigate exposure to professional liability.Goals and Learning Outcomes
A landmark report by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) discovered that medical errors often result from systems failure (IOM [U.S.] Committee on Quality of Health Care in America et al., 2000). This report also revealed that 98,000 deaths in any given year were attributed to medical errors and that as many as 220,000 deaths annually could be prevented (Haupt, 2019). Healthcare risk management is used by organizations to identify, evaluate, and manage risk and potential liability exposure. Since nurses are involved in risk management every day, they should be aware of common risks to patient safety, the reasons why medical errors occur, and how to mitigate risk.
- Describe healthcare risk management
- Identify common professional liability exposures for nurses
- Define three best practices for nursing documentation
- Discuss the importance of healthcare risk management and areas of legal risk.
- Recognize risk management strategies to improve patient safety.
- Identify at least three common areas of risk and the role of nurses in mitigating risk.
Course Details
Course Originally Released on : 8/1/2022
Course Expiration Date : 12/31/2025
REL-ACU-0-RMRN
Course Author
MSN, RN
MSN, RN
MPH, RN, CPHRM
RN, MSN, BC, CWS, FACCWS
BA, BSN, RN
PhD, RN, CNE, PLNC, FAADN
Accreditations
NURSES
In support of improving patient care, Relias LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, CEP#13791
Disclaimer: Not all courses will provide California Board of Registered Nursing approval. Per California Assembly Bill No. 241, continuing education courses related to direct patient care shall address at least one or a combination of the following:(1) Examples of how implicit bias affects perceptions and treatment decisions of licensees, leading to disparities in health outcomes; or (2) Strategies to address how unintended biases in decision-making may contribute to health care disparities by shaping behavior and producing differences in medical treatment along lines of race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, socioeconomic status, or other characteristics.
CEBroker
Relias LLC reports to CEBroker for the following boards (Provider # 50-1489): Arkansas State Board Of Nursing, District Of Columbia Board Of Nursing, Florida Board Of Nursing, Georgia Board Of Nursing, New Mexico Board Of Nursing, South Carolina Board Of Nursing and West Virginia Board Of Examiners For Registered Professional Nurses
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Disclosures
None of the planners/faculty, unless otherwise noted, for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
This program has been pre-approved by The Commission for Case Manager Certification to provide continuing education Ethics credit to CCM® board certified case managers. The course is approved for 1.00 CE contact hour(s).