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Become a Leader in Patient Safety. Master the strategies and tools to implement effective patient safety and quality initiatives.
Instructors: David Schwartz
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Health care professionals interested in acquiring concepts, strategies and skills needed to lead patient safety and quality improvement projects.
Identify the core aspects of a strong patient safety culture.
Describe the attributes of systems and processes that support a strong patient safety culture and a culture of continuous learning.
Analyze safety and quality measures to identify areas for improvement as well as to monitor and sustain improvement projects.
Develop a patient safety or quality improvement strategic plan.
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Preventable patient harms, including medical errors and healthcare-associated complications, are a global public health threat. Moreover, patients frequently do not receive treatments and interventions known to improve their outcomes. These shortcomings typically result not from individual clinicians’ mistakes, but from systemic problems -- communication breakdowns, poor teamwork, and poorly designed care processes, to name a few.
The Patient Safety & Quality Leadership Specialization covers the concepts and methodologies used in process improvement within healthcare. Successful participants will develop a system’s view of safety and quality challenges and will learn strategies for improving culture, enhancing teamwork, managing change and measuring success. They will also lead all aspects of a patient safety and/or quality improvement project, applying the methods described over the seven courses in the specialization.
Applied Learning Project
Learners will use real-world strategies, tools, and techniques to resolve various patient safety and quality issues based on authentic scenarios that occur in medical and clinical settings. They will also be required to leverage cross-disciplinary concepts to successfully address patient safety concerns.
Describe a minimum of four key events in the history of patient safety and quality improvement.
Define the key characteristics of high reliability organizations.
Explain the benefits of having strategies for both proactive and reactive systems thinking.
Review essential elements of a safety culture.
Describe how healthcare organizations identify and mitigate safety hazards.
Identify how patients and family members contribute to developing a safety culture.
Identify strategies for improving communication and teamwork .
Describe approaches for selecting and scoping a patient safety or quality improvement project.
Compare and contrast QI/PI approaches: A3 Thinking, Design Thinking, and Translating Research into Practice (TRiP).
Create a project charter or A3 using SMART goals.
Explain the usage of several root cause identification tools in the course of running a project.
Recognize the importance of planning for project sustainment.
Use the pre-mortem exercise to identify risks of project failure.
Design a change management plan that addresses technical and adaptive challenges.
Describe the 4E’s + 2 Model and its use to engage stakeholders.
Apply the 4 E's model and TRiP into developing your specific aims.
Identify the criteria to determine if a QI project needs to be submitted to the IRB.
Develop a plan to address the adaptive and technical challenges in your project.
Create a plan to turn a local QI project into a system-wide project.
Describe why measurement is important to quality improvement work.
Locate external sources of quality and safety measures and associated performance data.
Identify those data that are useful for monitoring and evaluating quality improvement projects.
Identify a patient safety or quality issue within your own area of practice, and describe concrete processes for addressing the issue.
Describe steps needed within your organization to move toward high reliability.
Describe intended steps for a focused career plan in becoming a patient safety and quality leader.
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This course is completely online, so there’s no need to show up to a classroom in person. You can access your lectures, readings and assignments anytime and anywhere via the web or your mobile device.
If you subscribed, you get a 7-day free trial during which you can cancel at no penalty. After that, we don’t give refunds, but you can cancel your subscription at any time. See our full refund policy.
Yes! To get started, click the course card that interests you and enroll. You can enroll and complete the course to earn a shareable certificate, or you can audit it to view the course materials for free. When you subscribe to a course that is part of a Specialization, you’re automatically subscribed to the full Specialization. Visit your learner dashboard to track your progress.
Yes. In select learning programs, you can apply for financial aid or a scholarship if you can’t afford the enrollment fee. If fin aid or scholarship is available for your learning program selection, you’ll find a link to apply on the description page.
When you enroll in the course, you get access to all of the courses in the Specialization, and you earn a certificate when you complete the work. If you only want to read and view the course content, you can audit the course for free. If you cannot afford the fee, you can apply for financial aid.
This Specialization doesn't carry university credit, but some universities may choose to accept Specialization Certificates for credit. Check with your institution to learn more.
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