Patient safety group PULSE of NY announces the extension of preregistration for its upcoming (Feb. 7) Family Centered Patient Advocacy Training workshop to January 30.
Online, January 21, 2014 (Newswire.com) - There are still more than 2,000 wrong site surgeries done each week in hospitals.
As many as 440,000 people will die this year in hospitals from preventable medical errors.
Leslie Farrington, MD, Patient Safety and communications educator, will discuss five problems associated with patient harm known as F.I.L.M.S. — Falls, Infections, Literacy, Medication and Surgery — at a workshop to be held Friday, February 7, from 8:30 AM to 1:00 PM in Freeport, New York. The program will also offer practical training in effective communication.
Offered on Long Island since 2006, this workshop focuses on the role of family or friends in acting as 'patient advocate' for someone who is ill, injured, or in need of routine medical care. It also explores what the patient's community can do to help ensure the best outcomes. Participants learn how to listen carefully, communicate clearly, and encourage good care without alienating medical staff.
Family Centered Patient Advocacy Training is based on a training manual of the same name, developed by PULSE of NY. It includes contributions by more than a dozen national experts including:
Mark Graber MD, founder of the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine, who specializes in diagnostic errors, and shows how to be a good 'historian' by gathering a patient's medical information.
Michael Cohen, R.Ph., M.S., ScD, President Institute for Safe Medication Practices, who describes how an advocate can alert a pharmacist to a patient's allergies or past reactions to medications.
Dr. Farrington, board member of PULSE of NY (a grassroots patient safety organization), and Ilene Corina, President of PULSE of NY, teach patient safety workshops at the South Nassau Unitarian Universalist Congregation, and will travel to other organizations to work with their members.
Preregistration for the February 7 workshop ends January 28. Groups are intentionally kept small to facilitate interactive learning, so please register early. For more information contact (516) 579-4711.
To learn more visit www.patientsafetyadvocate.org
Information about class:
Where: South Nassau Unitarian Universalist Congregation
228 South Ocean Ave. Freeport LI NY
Time: 8:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Cost: $45.00
Preregistration is required.
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