WHO Patient Safety Curriculum

Pages Module [lecture notes to download]
Module 1: What is patient safety? ……#0
80~83 1.1 Why is patient safety relevant to health care: the harm caused by healthcare errors and system failures
83~86 1.2 Human and economic costs: history of patient safety and the origins of the blame culture
87~88 1.3 Difference between system failures, violations and errors: a model of patient safety
89~92 1.4 What students need to do (performance requirements)
Module 2: What is human factors and why is it important to patient safety? ……#0
100~102 2.1 The meaning of the terms "human factors" and "ergonomics"
102~103 2.2 The relationship between human factors and patient safety
103~104 2.3 Apply human factors thinking to your work environment
104~106 2.4 Standardize common processes and procedures
Module 3: Understanding systems and the impact of complexity on patient care ……#0
108~110 3.1 Why systems thinking underpins patient safety: explain what is meant by the words "systems" and "complex system" as they relate to health care
110~111 3.2 The traditional approach when things go wrong in health care-blame and shame
111~113 3.3 The new approach of systematic analysis
113~114 3.4 Describe the term high reliability organization (HRO) and understand the elements of a safe health-care system
Module 4: Being an effective team player ……#0
119~121 4.1 Why teamwork is an essential element of patient safety: What different types of teams are found in health care
121~124 4.2 How do teams improve patient care: Leadership
124~127 4.3 Communication techniques for health-care teams: barriers to effective teamwork
127~129 4.4 Accidents in other industries: Using teamwork principles
Module 5: Understanding and learning from errors ……#0
141~143 5.1 Coming to terms with health-care errors: errors (up to but not including: Situations associated with an increased risk of error)
143~145 5.2 Situations associated with an increased risk of error: individual factors
145~146 5.3 Incident reporting
146~147 5.4 Root cause analysis: summary
Module 6: Understanding and managing clinical risk ……#0
151~153 6.1 Why clinical risk is relevant to patient safety: incident monitoring
153~156 6.2 Sentinel events: fitness-to-practise requirements
156~158 6.3 Credentialling: work environment and organization
158~160 6.4 Supervision: summary
Module 7: Introduction to quality improvement methods ……#0
165~167 7.1 Why students need to know about quality improvement methods: psychology
168~171 7.2 The role of measurement in improvement: the quality improvement model
171~174 7.3 Change concepts: sustaining and improvement phase
174~176 7.4 Root cause analysis: how to use a range of improvement activities and tools
Module 8: Engaging with patients and carers ……#0
183~185 8.1 Why engaging with patients and families is important: gaining informed consent
185~186 8.2 What a patient should know: benefits of patient and carer engagement
187~189 8.3 Is there evidence that patient engagement is effective: key principles of open disclosure
190~192 8.4 Advanced communications techniques and open disclosure: promoting patients'' involvement in their own care
Module 9: Minimizing infection through improved infection control ……#0
201~203 9.1 What infection control is relevant to patient safety: the economic burden
204~205 9.2 The main causes and types of infections: promoting the use of hand hygiene guidelines
206~209 9.3 The use of personal protection equipment: apply universal precautions
209~210 9.4 Students should be immunized against Hapatitis B: summary
Module 10: Patient safety and invasive procedures ……#0
216~217 10.1 Why patient safety is relevant to surgery and invasive procedures~inadequate patient management
217~219 10.2 Failure by health-care providers to communicate effectively before, during and after operative procedures
219~221 10.3 The verification processes for improving surgical care: guidelines in surgical care
221~223 10.4 Follow a verification process to eliminate wrong patient, wrong side and wrong procedure: summary
Module 11: Improving medication safety ……#0
229~231 11.1 Why focus on medications? prescribing
232~233 11.2 Administration: use generic names
234~235 11.3 Tailor prescribing to individual patients: develop checking habits
236~237 11.4 Encourage patients to be actively involved in their own care and the medication use process: summary

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