Patient Safety Curriculum
Linking Risk Management and Patient Safety
General Q & A
What does the curriculum cover?
Who should take these sessions?
When and where will the sessions be offered in 2010?
How do I join ASHRM?
Curriculum
As the trusted leader in patient safety education, ASHRM presents the 2009 Patient Safety Curriculum. This updated interactive training program will help healthcare risk managers enhance their contributions to better patient care and outcomes.
Discover the patient safety leadership potential for healthcare risk managers.
Ninety-seven percent of 2008 Patient Safety Curriculum attendees surveyed said the program was worth the value received. Given the growing importance of patient safety in risk management, can you afford to miss this opportunity in 2009?.
PART I: Set the Framework
- Discover the drivers that influence patient safety in the current regulatory and economic environments
- Identify links among risk management, quality and patient safety
- Recognize the importance of a defined taxonomy
- Describe the theory of high reliability and apply it to patient safety
- Recognize the impact of complexity theory on patient safety
- Identify the role of clinical microsystems in patient safety initiatives
- Identify behaviors leading to medical errors
PART II: Take the Lead
- See the value of risk management data as patient safety data
- Outline strategies to obtain actionable information from data-mining efforts
- Recognize psychological and physical signs of staff stress
- Describe key components of a media plan
- Identify risk exposures inherent with technology
- Discuss the relationship between potential medication errors and technology
- Recognize how organizational culture and conditions influence the success and sustainability of implemented change
- Discuss the characteristics of effective change leadership
Tools To Take Away
- Develop a business case for safety
- Apply the Ticket to Ride patient transportation process to improve handoffs
- Select appropriate graphic representations of data for given purposes (substantiate the need for change or measure/monitor change)
- Develop an organizational plan to address needs of staff, post adverse event
- Analyze and critique disclosure skills
- Distinguish analysis tools for retrospective study situations
- Describe analysis techniques to identify potential causes of patient harm
- Apply the decision tree tool to a fact pattern
Who should take these sessions?
- Healthcare risk management professionals
- Newly designated patient safety professionals
- Quality professionals
- Physician patient safety champions
- Leaders with patient safety oversight
- Patient safety board members
When and where will the sessions be offered in 2010?
Dates and locations for 2010 Patient Safety sessions will be announced soon.
How do I join ASHRM?
You can gain access to comprehensive and up-to-date programs, products, publications and member services at reduced prices by joining ASHRM today. Please visit the ASHRM membership page or call (312) 422-3980 between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. CT weekdays.
