Objectives

  • Define Serotonin Syndrome
  • Explore the drug interactions that often cause serotonin syndrome
  • Explore risk factors for serotonin syndrome
  • Discuss why mental health clinicians need to know about serotonin syndrome
  • Learn about treatment for serotonin syndrome
  • Explore common communication errors which can lead to medical errors in multidisciplinary teams

Objectives:

  • Define terms
  • Explore 8 medical errors in behavioral health settings
  • Identify 20 environmental hazards and prevention strategies
  • Review 17 root causes of sentinel events as identified by JCAHO

Objective

  • Identify types of medical errors common in counseling and a comprehensive integrated system of care
  • Discuss pain assessment and management techniques and how pain influences the comprehensive treatment process
  • Identify common documentation and communication errors in counseling and among multidisciplinary teams which may lead to medical errors

Florida Board Approved Medical Error Prevention Course

Instructor: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes, PhD, LMHC, LPC-MHSP

Objectives
Learn about: 
  • Root-cause analysis
  • Error reduction and prevention
  • Patient safety practices
  • Areas within mental health practice that carry the potential for "medical" errors including: Improper diagnosis, failure to comply with mandatory abuse reporting laws, inadequate assessment of potential for violence (e.g., suicide, homicide), failure to detect medical conditions presenting as a psychological/psychiatric disorder.

Florida Board Approved Medical Errors


Instructor: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes, PhD, LMHC
  • The student will develop an awareness of:
  • The array of problems caused by medical errors
  • Types of medical errors
  • Interventions including wrap around services and back-up plans

Objectives
  • Identify medical errors common in a comprehensive integrated system of care including pain management
  • Discuss how pain influences the comprehensive treatment process
  • Identify causes of errors
  • Describe effects of medical errors on the wellbeing of the patient and family
  • Identify common documentation and communication errors in multidisciplinary teams
  • Offer a definition of "medical error" as described by the institute of medicine
  • Identify the factors that must be included in a credible root cause analysis
  • Identify major signs and symptoms of a medical emergency
  • List pharmacological components of pain management
  • Describe other interventions designed to prevent harm and to protect patient safety commonly utilized by therapists
Objectives
  • Describe why strategic planning for medication safety is vital to all healthcare organizations
  • Identify the seven components necessary in a strategic plan for medication safety
  • Identify who should be involved in the medication safety planning process
  • Identify the processes that will assist participants in making appropriate judgments and decisions
  •  Identify goals, communicate relevant changes in processes and procedures and evaluate progress towards goals
  •  Initiate process assessments to identify areas needing safety improvements
  •  Understand what the various stakeholders and contributors have to offer
  •  Identify the 10 Key Elements of the Medication Use System and ways they can be promoted in the students own work setting
  • Identify the purpose of system redundancies
  • Identify error-prone processes in their organization

Objectives

  • Define Serotonin Syndrome
  • Explore the drug interactions that often cause serotonin syndrome
  • Explore risk factors for serotonin syndrome
  • Discuss why mental health clinicians need to know about serotonin syndrome
  • Learn about treatment for serotonin syndrome
  • Explore common communication errors which can lead to medical errors in multidisciplinary teams

Based on Counselor Toolbox Episodes 147 and 148