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Course Description:

Patient Safety course will provide a comprehensive understanding of patient safety and its fundamentals while shedding light on the most common worldwide problems and mistakes relating to patient safety. This course also discusses the importance of the critical components comprising a safety culture, explains the impact of human factors on safety, provides information on the importance of teamwork and communication, explores the root causes for patient safety related mistakes and their aftermath, and discusses universal protocols to implement patient safety.

Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:

  1. Understand the principle and theory of patient safety
  2. Understand the burden of unsafe practice
  3. Be aware of common mistakes related to patient safety and discuss universal protocols to prevent them
  4. Understand the role of health practitioners in improving patient safety
  5. Be able to describe and discuss the national patient safety goals and practical applications of each

Course Content

Module 1: Introduction to Patient Safety

  • Explain and discuss patient safety and its culture
  • Describe the Swiss Cheese Model
  • Summarize and examine the global burden of unsafe medical care and its adverse effects

Module 2: Health Care Error and Safety Issues

  • Differentiate the types of health care error
  • Identify the causes of health care error
  • Identify the risks and hazards in diagnostic errors
  • Discuss and summarize the different types of Hospital Acquired Infections (HAI)

Module 3: Patient Safety Facts and Quality Care Patient Safety Children

  • Discuss the quality and patient safety facts
  • Describe the quality improvement methods in patient care
  • Describe clinical and administrative indicators of safety and safe delivery of high quality care in children
  • Demonstrate the measures on prevention of disruptive behaviour

Module 4: Basic Concepts and patient safety and healthcare quality Improvement

  • Discuss basic concepts and factors in patient safety
  • Demonstrate and perform nursing competencies to ensure patient safety in medical care
  • Define quality improvement in healthcare
  • Discuss considerations, components, and tools for healthcare improvement
  • Demonstrate and operate medical devices safely
  • Describe how patient safety principles can assist in minimizing adverse events associated with invasive procedures

Module 5: W.H.O Guidelines for Safe Surgery

  • Discuss the importance of patient-safe surgery and the need to improve it in today’s complex healthcare system
  • Demonstrate the role of the nurse inpatient capacity and consent

Module 6: Patient Safety Goals and Patient-Centered Care

  • Discuss the Joint Commission’s National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG) requirements
  • Perform the NPSG in clinical practice
  • Identify processes implemented to comply with the NPSG
  • Describe patient-centered care and apply effective communication between the clinician and patient/family
  • Demonstrate the nursing interventions to prevent falls and its risk factors

Module 7: Medication Safety

  • Differentiate and arrange the medication look-alike, sound-alike, and tall-man lettering medication names
  • Explain the extent and effect of medical errors on patient health and safety

Demonstrate and discuss the steps for safe medication administration

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