Saturday, 12 July 2014

Prevention Of Medical Errors Course

By Coleen Torres


Health care providers usually make many mistakes of which some are due to negligence and some are just ignorance. This has caused so much mistrust from patients to many hospitals because of the many unnecessary deaths, corrective surgery due to the mistakes by the doctors, nurses. It is because of this that it has become necessary to attend prevention of medical errors course for heath care providers to prevent some of these unfortunate happenings

It is not possible for a student to cover everything necessary in class therefore it is always advisable to take short courses to learn more on how to prevent errors in the medicine field in order to become a full well equipped professional with the needed knowledge. This courses can be taken after completing your full course or even during the course because they can be taken online.

There are many aims and objectives of a student taking this course. It can help in giving them the confidence to do their work knowing that are well equipped and also helps them take better care of the patients in that they now know the root causes of many mistakes that might happen and the solutions to offer. They also advise the patients and their families on better care for themselves. This is good because it prevents the problems from happening again.

The study also shows the health care providers the effects of not having enough knowledge might have from the errors done either knowingly or unknowingly. A patient might also die or lose a apart of their bodies or even be disabled because of their carelessness or lack of knowledge. They learn to become more careful.

An objective like also educating the public on taking good care of themselves and their loved ones on preventive measures and taking good care of the ones that are already affected, are also very important. The medics learn how to identify the root causes if the errors and apply the knowledge they learned to prevent them. They also learn how to reduce the risks of mistakes in their medical field.

As much as there are many aims/objectives of taking the extra learning, there are also some benefits of taking/ studying. Some of them on the patients are:- they are being taken care of by full professionals hence no risks of any mistakes, they do not have to stay in the hospitals longer than necessary, they do not have to pay for any extras due to such negligence and them and their families do not have to worry about having to sue the hospital.

The patients also benefit in that they do not spend any extra time or money with the heath care providers in that they are professionals who do their work properly and on expected time. The patient also feels good and that they are in good hands of a professional just by the way they are handled.

After looking at the many objectives and benefits of this study, it evident that a medic is better off having the extra knowledge




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