Description
This course is based on two chapters from the text book Person-Focused Health Care Management: A Foundational Guide for Health Care Managers, by Donald L. Zimmerman. In these chapters, the author reviews the statistics related to injuries and deaths resulting from medical error, details best practices using UI's Seven Pillars approach to prevent medical errors, and provides the framework to visualize the human factor reengineering designed to avoid medical errors, and much more. The case studies provided at the end of the chapters will help the reader better conceptualize and apply the person-focused care practices to minimize medical errors.
Target audience: Psychologists, mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, social workers, addiction counselors, nurses.
All medical errors courses must be approved by the Florida Board of Psychology. Athealth.com DOES NOT currently offer a medical errors course for Florida Psychologists.
Format: Asynchronous, reading-based distance learning. Non-interactive.
Content category: General
This course is designed for intermediate level mental health professionals.
There are no known conflicts of interest or commercial support to disclose.
Author Bio
Donald L. Zimmerman, PhD, is a professor and program director of health care management at the University of New Orleans. Previously, he was collegiate professor and director of the Health Care Administration Program at the University of Maryland University College and executive director of the Center for Healthcare Management Studies at Fairleigh Dickinson University. He has also served as a visiting associate professor at the Sloan Program in Health Administration, Cornell University.
Before turning to full-time academic work in 1998, Dr. Zimmerman was actively engaged in national and state health policy developments as senior research sociologist at Research Triangle Institute International, senior policy analyst at the National Health Policy Forum at The George Washington University, and executive director of the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council. Over his career, he has also provided advisory services to the U.S. Congress, federal and state government agencies, national associations, health care providers, and major health care consulting firms.
Dr. Zimmerman is a frequent speaker and has authored over 100 health care management and policy articles, technical reports, and professional presentations. He currently serves as vice chair of the Board of Directors of the International Commission for Dalit Rights and continues to work with senior clinical and policy leaders on a range of health care and related issues.
He earned his BA with distinction from the University of Washington and his MA and PhD in sociology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
CE Approvals
At Health, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6949. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. At Health, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Athealth.com is approved as a continuing education provider by the National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors (NAADAC) Provider #148460.
At Health, LLC, Provider #1707, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. At Health, LLC, maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 5/3/2023-5/3/2026.
It is At Health's understanding that these programs meet the criteria of an approved continuing education program for social work in Arkansas. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit.
It is At Health's understanding that these programs meet the criteria of an approved continuing education program for social workers, professional counselors, marriage and family therapists, master's level psychologists, licensed clinical psychotherapists, and alcohol and other drug abuse counselors in Kansas. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit.
It is At Health's understanding that these programs meet the criteria of an approved continuing education program for mental health practice and for social work in Nebraska. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit.
It is At Health's understanding that these programs meet the criteria of an approved continuing education program for psychologists, pastoral psychotherapists, clinical social workers, clinical mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, and alcohol and drug abuse counselors in New Hampshire. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit.
It is At Health's understanding that these programs meet the criteria of an approved continuing education program for social workers, professional counselors, marital and family therapists, and clinical pastoral therapists in Tennessee. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit.
Other jurisdictions may accept trainings offered by At Health, LLC for your continuing education requirements. Restrictions may apply. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit.”
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