Mitigating the Toll of Medical Errors on Clinicians by Jo Shapiro, MD, FACS

Webinar Date: October 31, 2019

As a clinician, being involved in adverse events can have devastating emotional consequences. How we react to these events – as individuals, colleagues and organizations – has a major effect on our organizational culture of psychological safety, provider wellbeing, disclosure and reporting, and patient safety.  Dr. Shapiro’s presentation will detail these effects and address the unique role that frontline physicians can play in supporting one another after adverse events. She will describe the peer support program developed at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and adopted by dozens of healthcare organizations. She will describe the building blocks of a creating and sustaining a peer support program, including providing the participants with the rationale to bring to leadership in advocating for peer support program resources.

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify the emotional impact of adverse events on clinicians
2. Recognize the impact this has on a culture of psychological safety, provider wellbeing, disclosure and reporting, and patient safety.
3. Provide a rationale to leadership for developing a peer support program
4. Delineate the foundational aspects of a peer support program

Webinar presented by Dr. Tom Gallagher on Thursday, June 6, 2019

Large-scale adverse events, situations in which a breakdown in care has affected multiple (sometimes thousands) of patients, pose significant challenges for institutions related to responding in ways that inform potentially affected patients without unduly alarming them and managing the follow-up. This webinar will highlight lessons learned from the field around responding effectively to adverse events, as well as key unanswered questions.

Learning objectives:

1. Describe the diversity of large-scale adverse events, and how responding to these events differs from managing adverse events that affect individual patients
2. List the key elements of an effective response to a large-scale adverse events and the tools that are currently available to assist with this process
3. Critique an actual large-scale adverse event patient notification letter and press release, and articulate opportunities for improvement in these documents.

WEBINAR DATE: July 16, 2020

This webinar outlines the concerns and questions about the collision between the judicial system and its pathway to addressing medical error and CRP programs.

PRESENTERS: Cindy Jacobs, RN, JD

OBJECTIVES:

1. Describe the basics of how the tort system operates in a medical error/adverse outcome situations
2. Describe the basics and how, when, and why CRP “apology laws,” “mandatory disclosure” laws/requirements, and healthcare licensing systems intersect and/or collide with the tort system
3. Identify key points to assist healthcare professionals in navigating intersections and collisions

Streamed live on May 6, 2015 Clinicians encounter many stressors during their careers, none more significant than a difficult patient event that results in harm. Acknowledging that clinicians make seldom use of traditional support services, leading health centers across the US are pioneering Peer Support Programs that make available a trained and compassionate network of peers who can reach out and provide 1:1 support to a clinician experiencing stress.

In this live video event, we are honored to host the leading authority in the field, Dr. Jo Shaprio of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, in conversation with Dr. Bryan Bohman, physician leader of Stanford Medicine’s Peer Support Program, to explore the following questions:

• What is motivating leading institutions to establish Peer Support Programs?
• How do Peer Support Programs work? How do they differ from existing support services?
• How effective are they? What do the data say?
• What best practices have emerged?
• What challenges need to be overcome?

The Risk Authority – Stanford, in partnership with Aon Risk Solutions, Lockton UK and MedPro Group invite you to participate in this exciting opportunity to learn about and explore Peer Support Programs from leading experts in the field.

Read more here.