This course introduce the key concepts regarding patient safety. Course focuses on national legislation and strategic basis and patient safety from the point of view of patient, health care team, and system level in learning organization. After completing the course student is able to analyze management role and teamwork with patient safety in all main patient safety areas, analyze meaning of patient safety culture in error prevention, apply medication safety tools, critically evaluate the situation, and know how to use root cause analysis method, either evaluate in essay the main topics in patient safety research or evaluate their own past patient safety experience to learn from it.
Course details
- Concepts and methods related to patient safety (errors, harm, near misses, adverse events, patient safety incidents, reporting tools, root cause analysis, trigger tools)
- National and international legislation and strategies concerning patient safety
- Prevention of errors, non-blame culture, second and third victim, defusing, debriefing, safety I and safety II
- The role of management and leadership in patient safety culture
- Medication safety, equipment safety
- Patient safety in teamwork and critical care
- Patient involvement in patient safety
Method
online
Topics
concepts and methods related to patient safety (errors, harm, near misses, adverse events, patient safety incidents, reporting tools, root cause analysis, trigger tools), national and international legislation and strategies concerning patient safety, prevention of errors, non-blame culture, second and third victim, defusing, debriefing, safety I and safety II, the role of management and leadership in patient safety culture, medication safety, equipment safety, patient safety in teamwork and critical care, patient involvement in patient safety.
Target audience
The course is open to degree students, medical students, nursing students, public health, exchange students.
Duration
April 5, 2023 – May 31, 2023
