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SaferCare Texas PSO: 2025-27 Adverse Event Reporting
"Patient safety is everyone’s business. Medical accidents cause suffering to our patients and their relatives, waste huge amounts of money, and are a cause of stress, anxiety, and burnout in clinical staff. Improving safety is not a question of ‘trying harder', but of learning from our mistakes. To do that we need to identify where we go wrong." (Fetherston 2015) Learning from past experiences and developing system-based processes to prevent future events improves patient safety. Adverse Event Reporting is one of the best ways for an organization to examine current practices and make changes proactively. An important element of any Adverse Event Reporting System is capturing near misses as well.
Target Audience
This activity is intended for physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, social workers, licensed professional counselors, and public health professionals.
Learning Objectives
When you complete this module, you will be able to:
- Define adverse events and their most common classifications.
- Outline the importance of reporting adverse events.
- Identify steps to report and follow up when an adverse event occurs.
- Analyze how the healthcare team can work together to report, investigate, and improve when adverse events happen.
Acknowledgements
We would like to acknowledge the work of the original authors of this course that were not involved in this revision.
Melissa Calvin, PMP
Tracy Chamblee, PhD, APRN, PCNS-BC, CPPS, CPHQ, FCNS
Rosa Amaya, LVN
Brenda Wilson, MS, CHCP
Primary Contributors and Reviewers
Traci Butler Carroll
Ashlyn Aguiniga, PharmD, BCACP, CDCES
Conchita Andrijeski, LPC-S, CCTP, BHC-CC
Janice Knebl, DO, MBA, FACP, MACOI, CPPS
Laine Markham, MMS, MBA, PA-C
Catherine Sembajwe-Reeves, EdD, MA
Maryssa Vasquez, Maryssa Vasquez, LCSW
Jennifer Barrow, RN, MSN
Justin Burton, MBA BSN RN CPPS CPHQ NE-BC LLC LSSBB
Katie McKinley, MHA
In support of improving patient care, The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing Education for the healthcare team.
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit.
The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth has been authorized by the American Academy of Physician Associates (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 0.75 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. Approval is valid until 06/03/2027. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.
American Osteopathic Association
The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth is accredited by the American Osteopathic Association to award continuing medical education to physicians.
National Board of Public Health Examiners
This activity is approved for 0.75 credit(s) accepted by the National Board of Public Health Examiners' Certified Public Health (CPH) recertification program.
Texas Administrative Code
The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth certifies this activity meets the requirements for continuing education for Texas-licensed Professional Counselors and Texas-licensed Marriage and Family Therapists.
Designation Statements
Physicians
The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth designates this program for a maximum of 0.75 contact hour of AOA Category 2B CME credits and will report CME and specialty credits commensurate with the extent of the physician's participation in the activity.
The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth designates this activity for a maximum of 0.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Physician Assistants
The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 0.75 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. Approval is valid until 06/03/2027. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.
Pharmacist
This knowledge-based activity has been assigned UAN JA0004637-0000-25-037-H05-P and will award 0.75 contact hour of continuing pharmacy education credit in states that recognized ACPE Providers.
Statements of participation will indicate hours and CEUs based on participation and will be issued online at the conclusion of the activity. Successful completion includes completing the activity, its accompanying evaluation and/or posttest (score 70% or higher) and requesting credit online at the conclusion of the activity.
Credit will be uploaded to CPE Monitor, and participants may print a statement of credit or transcript from their NABP e-profile. HSC complies with the Accreditation Standards for Continuing Pharmacy Education.
Nurses
The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. This activity provides up to 0.75 contact hour(s).
Certified Public Health Professionals
This activity provides 0.75 contact hours.
Social Workers
Social Workers completing this course receive 1.0 contact hour of continuing education credits.
Licensed Professional Counselors
This activity provides 0.75 contact hours.
Certificate of Attendance
The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth certifies this activity for 0.75 hours of participation.
Available Credit
- 0.75 AAPA Category 1 CME
The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth has been authorized by the American Academy of Physician Associates (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 0.75 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. Approval is valid until June 3, 2027. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.
- 0.75 ACPE Pharmacy
- 0.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 0.75 ANCC
- 0.75 AOA Category 2-B
- 1.00 ASWB Credit
- 0.75 Certified Public Health (CPH)
- 0.75 Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC)
- 0.75 HSC Participation