Preventable medical errors are actually on the rise by 1% per year according to the 2010 revised National Quality Forum publication on 34 Safe Practices for Better Healthcare. CMS will start reporting each hospital’s scores and reduce payments by 1% to hospitals with the highest rate of medical errors and infections in 2015. 

So, what is a “Just Culture?” Tune in for this informative 90-minute webinar where nurse attorney Sue Dill Calloway will discuss what hospitals need to do to create a patient safety culture and how to create a balance of a non-punitive environment for medical errors with the “Just Culture” theory. 

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the CMS hospital CoP requirements including that near misses must be included in the definition of what constitutes a medication error.
• Discuss The Joint Commission requirements for the patient safety program including why a FMEA must be done every 18 months.
• Describe some of the NQF 2010 Practices for Better Healthcare recommendations.
• Identify AHRQ’s 10 patient safety tips for hospitals.Discuss the system analysis theory with a non-punitive system for system failures.
• Discuss what is meant by “Just Culture.”

Target Audience:

• Patient Safety Team Members
• Patient Safety Officer
• Quality Management Coordinator
• Joint Commission Coordinator
• Nurse Educator
• Chief Nursing Officer
• Nurse Managers
• Risk Manager
• Hospital Legal Counsel
• Physicians
• VP of Medical Staff
• Consumer Advocate
• Nurse Managers
• Nurse Supervisors
• Clinic Managers
• Nurses
• CEO
• Compliance Officer
• Pharmacist
• And anyone else involved in improving patient safety in healthcare facilities

Level: All levels 

Meet your Expert:

Sue Dill Calloway is a nurse attorney and medical-legal consultant. She has done many educational programs for nurses, physicians, and other health care providers. She has spoken internationally on patient safety, risk management, legal, regulatory, and CMS and Joint Commission issues. She has authored over a thousand articles and a hundred books including a book on the Compliance Guide to the Joint Commission, CMS Patient Rights Standards and a book on 2009 Joint Commission Leadership and many books on nursing law and nursing law and ethics.  

Her associate degree is from Central Ohio Technical College and Ohio State University. Her BA, BSN in Nursing, MSN in nursing (summa cum laude) and JD degree (law degree with honors) are from Capital University in Columbus, Ohio.

Accreditation Statement:

AHC Media is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Credit Designation:

This activity has been approved for 1.5 nursing contact hours using a 60-minute contact hour.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider # 14749, for 1.5 Contact Hours.

Sponsor:

The sponsor of this educational activity is AHC Media.

The information provided in AHC Media webinars does not, and is not intended to constitute medical diagnoses or legal advice. Individual tracer methodology outcomes cannot be guaranteed. Opinions, references and links provided by our speakers are provided for your convenience and do not represent our endorsement of such opinions, products or services.

Recorded: May 23, 2011