Risk Management: Communication, Care & Clear Protocols – Ensuring Safety for Patients of Every Age Part 2
Friday, June 16, 2023
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM PST
Location: Skagit 3
CE Credits: 1.5
Primary Audience(s): Dentist
Additional Audience(s): Hygienist, EFDA/Dental Assistant, Front Office
The TDIC Risk Management seminar is a three-hour course which has been broken out into two 90-minute segments. To receive the TDIC policyholder 5% Professional Liability premium discount, attendees must attend both segments in their entirety.
When patients establish their care with you, they entrust you with their dental health and expect a level of competency and professionalism that is worthy of that trust. It is your professional obligation to provide services within the appropriate standard of care to increase the potential of an optimal treatment outcome while ensuring patient safety. RM19 - Communication, Care and Clear Protocols: Ensuring Safety for Patients of Every Age is designed to share best practices informed by real world calls and TDIC cases. Understand the importance of properly maintaining thorough health history forms, obtaining, and documenting appropriate consent and implementing protocols for in office dispensing of products to reduce potential for complaints, claims or lawsuits. Learn how to apply critical communication skills when untoward and unexpected events, injuries or serious complications occur.
Learning Objectives:
Conduct more effective informed consent discussions with patients, their representatives, or legal guardians.
Establish protocols to review the patient’s medical history and implement controls for dispensing products.
Enhance communication skills to increase patient safety and the potential for optimal treatment outcomes.