Patient Safety Online 10-CME Credit Training

Patient Safety Priorities

Hundreds of thousands of patients are harmed or die each year due to unsafe practices in healthcare organizations. Unexpectedly, such unsafe healthcare practices have shifted up medical error to be the third leading cause of death in the USA (251,454 patients die in hospitals each year) as per a published literature review in the BMJ in May 2016. Understanding the patient safety principles and implementing the healthcare safety priorities is the first step towards improving patient care and saving patient lives. This Patient Safety Priorities Workshop is tailored to provide positive insight on Patient safety and the essential practices to cultivate patient safety culture in the healthcare organization, works toward excellence, and finally identify and minimize potential risks in healthcare practices.

OBJECTIVES AND TOPICS TO BE COVERED:

1. Recognize The 18 Safety Targets of the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ)

2. Identify components of patient safety culture

3. Learn how to manage Alert Fatigue

4. Learn how to prevent and manage device-related complications

5. Fill the gap in healthcare communications Handoff and Sign-out.

6. Learn how to improve healthcare verbal and over the phone communication using ISBAR and I-PASS models

7. Learn how to prevent and manage interruption and distraction at work

8. Learn how to prevent and manage workplace violence

9. Learn how to prevent and manage fire

10. Learn how to prevent restrain related injuries

11. Identify different types or violence at work and know-how to prevent them

12. How to develop a prospective strategy to prevent medical errors in the future

13. Master the International Patient Safety Goals (IPSGs) of the Joint Commission International (JCI)

14. Master the Required Organizational Practices (ROPs) of Accreditation Canada

15. The Essential Safety Requirements (ESRSs) of The Saudi Central Board for healthcare Institutions (CBAHI)

By attending this workshop both   organization and participant will gain the following values:

Gaining Value for Organization

§ Positive Reputation

§ client Trust

§ Client satisfaction

§ Improve business safety practices

§ Avoid preventable claim

Gaining Value for participants

§ Be a safety & quality champion

§ Do no harm

§ Saving business

§ Practice with self-confidence

§ Avoid preventable error

Target Group:

§ All healthcare professionals