Location

Productivity and Quality Institute - Alexandria

Objectives

• • The course describes the processes required for effectively reporting, investigating, and analyzing patient safety incidents and medical errors, presents effective strategies for educating, engaging, and training clinicians and staff in patient safety initiatives, and • Introduces measurement techniques and methods used to evaluate the effectiveness of patient safety efforts and target specific areas for improvement. • Also, the course highlights the risk management process, identification, assessment, and prioritization of risks followed by coordinated and economical application of resources to minimize, monitor, and control the probability and/or impact of unfortunate events or to maximize the realization of opportunities.

Outcomes

• Upon completion of this course the student should be able to: 1. Understand patient safety main principles 2. Know and understand patient safety goals 3. Understand the effect of patient safety on health care practices 4. Highlight the basic principles of risk management 5. Understand and apply risk management applications in healthcare

Course Contents

1. Basic principles and definitions in patient safety2. Patient safety culture3. Standardized patient identification4. Communication and continuity of care 5. Medication safety6. Ensuring safe surgery7. Standardized method to reduce healthcare associated infection8. Management of patient fall9. Infection control basic principles10. Infection control applications in healthcare