Seminar: In House Seminars on Medical Errors

101 Ways to Prevent Medical Errors

In-House Seminars on Medical Errors, 2003 - 2004

If medical errors happen at the Duke University Hospital, one of the leading medical institutions in the nation, they can happen in your hospital too, with the same disastrous outcome! Medical errors are not about bad medicine, but about simple systemic failures.

Let one of the nation’s leading pioneers of war on medical errors teach your clinical staff how to evaluate every process within the system, to spot possible systemic failures, to design solution intervention, to achieve positive outcome, to test such design, to effectively implement the solution, and measure the outcome.

No health care professional is immune to medical errors. The primary mission of our seminar is to help your staff spot the possibility of systemic failures and fix them before they lead to tragedies and giant lawsuits.

Our Seminar Will Also Accomplish these Goals:

1. Help your staff in high-risk departments to wage war against medical errors.

2. Sustain an on-going awareness of the possibility of making errors.

3. Teach your staff to spot and fix errors on the process-line before impacting patients.

4. Improve patient care and patient satisfaction by decreasing medical errors.

5. Reduce malpractice lawsuits by decreasing the chances of medical errors.

6. Motivate your employees to be more productive while creating a friendly work environment with their peers.

7. Reduce operational costs by reducing redundancies, unnecessary duplications, and misadventures.

Seminar Topics

Seminar #1

Overview of Medical Errors 2003 and Review of a 3-year Case Study: Resolving Laboratory and Nursing Specimen Collection Errors.

Seminar #2

7 Basic Stages of Correcting Medical Errors, Including 71 Hints on How to Correct Medical Errors.

Seminar #3

Proactive Strategies for Preventing Medical Errors.

Processes of Designing and Implementing New Procedure.

How to Evaluate a New Procedure or an Already Existing Process to Prevent Errors

Seminar #4

Preventing Medication Errors:

Looking at every process including prescription by physicians, data entry by secretaries, dispensing by pharmacists, and administering to patients by nurses.

Seminar #5

Preventing Patient-Identification Errors.

Preventing Specimen-Collection Errors.

Hints About What Works to Solve These Two Problems as determined by an On-going Study.

Seminar #6

The Value of Group Approach in Solving Problems.

Basic Hints About Creating a Successful Action Committee.

Creating a Conducive Atmosphere to Solution Implementation.

Shared Accountability Concept.

Please note: This is a work-intensive, all-day seminar. The specific objectives of this in-house training are tailored to the needs of each institution. After we receive your application, a questionnaire will be sent to you to help us address the specific needs of your institution regarding medical-error prevention.

Who Should Attend? Any supervisory, managerial, or administrative staff; physicians; health-care staff working in high-risk departments; and enthusiastic workers who can be trained to head a quality-improvement committee.

To Request for a Package Information on the Inhouse Seminar, Fax Your Request with Name and Address to: 314-653-6543 or call 800-599-7313

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