About This Course
This review is based on the presentation sponsored by Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, “Incident Reporting and Closing the Safety Feedback Loop,” by Rich Branson, presented at AARC Congress 2017 held in Indianapolis, Indiana. The objective of this program was to raise awareness about the importance of device incident reporting and how incident reporting can improve patient safety.
Successful completion of this course requires a score of 80% on the post-test.
This guide is supported with an educational grant from Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals.
**Please note that this program requires the participant to view the entire intro video prior to reading the course content, taking and passing the final quiz with at least 80% to earn credit and obtain a course certificate.**
Providing respiratory therapists with an understanding of incident reporting at the operational (by clinicians) and organizational (by hospitals) levels
Highlighting data relative to under-reporting of incidents in healthcare and discussing barriers to incident reporting
Educating respiratory therapists on the importance of knowing how and when to report incidents in their institution
Chapters
Incident Reporting and Closing the Safety Feedback Loop


Speaker Information
- Richard Branson MSc, RRT, FAARC, FCCM