If you are looking for the medical errors course that meets the Florida requirement, please look under Florida Board of Nursing Requirements for "Preventing Medical Errors: Florida Requirement."

The goal of this program is to discuss approaches to prevent errors that are both system-based and human performance-based, and the Joint Commission of Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) National Patient Safety Goals as they pertain to medical errors. After you study the information presented here, you will be able to —

• Explain the interdisciplinary nature of the medication error problem.
• Examine sources and types of medication errors.
• Relate theories and strategies to reduce the occurrence of medication errors.
• Define sentinel event, root cause analysis, and failure mode, effects, and criticality analysis.
• List the advantages of root cause analysis.
• Describe the impact of medication errors on health care providers.