PBI Education – Risk Management Essentials

Description
Understanding the common legal pitfalls and risks that impact clinicians and health care organizations is essential to providing
safe patient care. In the PBI Risk Management Essentials course, participants develop a deeper understanding of the potential
risks clinicians face regarding ethics, communication, boundaries, documentation, and prescribing. Using the PBI Formula©,
participants learn how to identify their risk factors and create a Personalized Protection Plan© of practical strategies and
solutions to protect patients and their career.

The course is facilitated in an interactive group format and taught by one primary faculty member who reviews each participant’s
pre-course assignment submissions.
Subject/objective
– Identify the legal pitfalls and practice shortcomings that increase regulatory and practice management risks and list the preventative measures that can be taken against them.
– Describe techniques for appropriately handling communications, both in person and via electronic communication channels, with colleagues, staff, patients and their families, private sector organizations, and governmental entities.
– Identify common ethical and boundary dilemmas and describe strategies and resources to prevent them, including appropriate patient forms, chaperons, parameters for networking, social media, and advertising, supervisory and delegation policies, informed consent policies, and patient termination policies.
– Identify the types of unprofessional conduct that pose risks to practice, including confidentiality violations, documentation concerns, prescribing problems, disruptive behaviors, substance abuse, and impairment.
– Apply the PBI Formula© and describe how to develop a Personalized Protection Plan for immediate implementation.
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Affiliated or Accredited by:
PBI Education; University of California Irvine, School of Medicine
AMA PRA Category 1 Credit
10
ABMS/ACGME Competencies
Patient Care and Procedural Skills
Interpersonal and Communication Skills
Professionalism