Patient safety mainly focuses on the reduction and mitigation of unsafe acts within the healthcare system using best practices which ultimately help lead to optimal patient outcomes. A hospital is a complex environment where errors can injure or kill. It is important to measure patient safety initiatives and adverse events while monitoring the progress of the strategies and while tracking success. Overall, patient safety, helps flag issues and helps identify potential areas for improvement.

Medvarsity and the International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua), have together created a flexible, online education program on patient safety. This “Specialist Certificate Course in Patient Safety” covers right from introduction to patient safety to the WHO medication safety challenge.

In this course you will learn:

The specialist certificate course in patient safety covers the following topics:

• Introduction to Patient Safety
• Human Factors and Patient Safety
• Teamwork/Communication
• Responding to Adverse Events
• Root Cause Analysis (RCAs)
• Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
• Measuring Patient Safety
• Understanding/Managing Clinical Risk
• Change Management
• Clinical Applications of PS Theory
• Medication Safety
• The WHO Medication Safety Challenge

Course Objectives

The learning objectives of this patient safety course are to:

• Understand and explain “safety” from the viewpoint of the patient.
• Explain the link between human error and harm, and identify unsafe acts and human factors
• Describe the risks and benefits of technology on patient safety
• Explain how teamwork is critical to patient safety.
• Define healthcare standards
• List the 3 critical components of the culture of safety
• Understand and describe the WHO medication safety challenge.

Eligibility

• Any graduate
• Doctors, nurses, pharmacists, pharmacy managers, quality officers, patient safety officers, quality and safety managers, administrators, improvement advisors/consultants and quality specialists whose prime focus includes improving healthcare quality will benefit from this course.

Course Validity

• 3 months. There will be an extra charge on the extension of the course validity.

Assessments

• Online reflective learning assessments. The learner is tasked with applying the learning to one or more case studies or situations.

Certification

• On completion of all course modules and assessments, successful candidates will receive a Specialist Certificate in Patient Safety,  jointly from Medvarsity and ISQua.