Course Description The prevalence of adverse events (AEs) in medical care is very high and can lead to serious medical consequences, high mortality, and excess costs for extended medical care
This program will assist clinicians to understand a ventilator associated event, identify acronyms related to ventilator associated events, and recognize surveillance techniques, new terminology and complications related to the ventilator
We can prevent almost 80% of cardiac events. Yet heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States
This annual, worldwide, awareness-raising event has been going strong ever since Helen Osborne founded it in 1999
Basically, there are three conditions than can compromise sterility; moisture, soil and physical damage. All of these events are affected by the storage and handling of the packages after sterilization
These areas are surgical site infections, perioperative hypothermia, retention of foreign objects, wrong site surgery, perioperative pressure injuries, catheter-associated urinary tract infections, central line-associated bloodstream infections, venous thromboembolism, and medication errors, also addressed as adverse drug events. This course will focus on the patient safety issue of medication errors. Learning Objectives Upon completion of the course, the learner will be able to: Explore medication errors and adverse drug events Review the six phases of medication administration Discuss risk factors that contribute to medication errors Review a summary of best practices for prevention of medication errors Intended Audience This educational activity was developed for nurses and healthcare professionals
These areas are surgical site infections, perioperative hypothermia, retention of foreign objects, wrong site surgery, perioperative pressure injuries, catheter-associated urinary tract infections, central line-associated bloodstream infections, venous thromboembolism, and medication errors, also addressed as adverse drug events. This course will focus on the patient safety issue of wrong site surgery (WSS). Learning Objectives Upon completion of the course, the learner will be able to: Define wrong site surgery Understand the statistics surrounding WSS and the significance it holds as a patient safety issue Identify the risk factors and potential causes that allow this “never event” to occur Discuss the Universal Protocol in relation to WSS Identify best practices that should be in place to prevent WSS from occurring Intended Audience This educational activity was developed for nurses and healthcare professionals
Venous thrombolytic events, or VTEs, which include deep vein thrombosis, or DVT, and pulmonary emboli, or PE, are recognized as the most preventable cause of death of hospitalized patients or those who have been recently hospitalized
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