Evaluation of Individual Objectives
To assess the effectiveness of the course material, we ask that you evaluate your achievement of each learning objective on a scale of A to D (A=excellent, B=good, C=fair, D=unsatisfactory). Please indicate your responses next to each learning objective and return it to us with your completed exam.
Learning Objectives
Upon completing this course you’ll be able to:
Chapter 1: Medical Errors: The Scope of the Problem
- Describe the scope of the medical errors problems and cite statistics showing public concern about the quality of health care.
- Define and identify various types of medical errors.
- List five steps a patient can take for safer health care.
Chapter 2: 20 Tips to Help Prevent Medical Errors
- Describe what a patient can do to avoid medical errors.
Chapter 3: Helpful Hints for Preventing Medication Errors
- Identify 4 ways to minimize errors.
- Make a list of “high-alert” medications.
- List and review target procedures commonly associated with medication errors.
Chapter 4: Improving Medication Safety
- Identify 10 common sources of error.
- Describe successful practices for improving medication safety.
Chapter 5: Reducing Errors in Health Care
- Describe how errors occur in health-care delivery steps.
- Describe various measures that can be taken to improve patient safety.
- Implement recommendations for identifying and learning from errors in pediatrics.
Chapter 6: Root Cause Analysis
- Describe the application of root cause analysis in medicine and outline its significant methodological limitations.
Chapter 7: Fatigue, Sleepiness, and Medical Errors
- Explain the effects of sleep debt.
- Explain the deleterious effect of night shifts and shift rotation on performance.
- Recite studies that have documented the impact of fatigue on medical personnel performance.
- Describe the impact of direction and speed of rotation of shift work on worker fatigue.