FACES OF PATIENT SAFETY
Session Description: Linda Kenney went into the hospital for an ankle replacement. She came out with a host of complications resulting from a mistake that no one was willing to admit. Until Rick Van Pelt, her anesthesiologist stepped forward. Patients expect physicians, nurses and other health care providers to follow the best practices for delivering safe and consistently good care. In this session, you will hear personal stories from a patient and her provider of preventable harm in health care and the impact it had on their lives and how this is a powerful motivational force for health-care providers who wish, first, to do no harm.
Speaker: Brian Radbill, MD FACP – Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President for Medical Affairs at Mount Sinai St. Luke’s and Associate Professor, Division of Nephrology, ISMMS
Location: Annenberg 13-01 (Teirstein Auditorium)
Learning Objectives: At the end of this session, the student learners will:
- Appreciate the impact of a patient safety event on the patient.
- Acknowledge the physician and members of the healthcare team as a second victim.
Pre-Session Assignment: NONE
Readings: NONE