Patient Safety Curriculum Certificate Program

ASHRM has designed a unique two-part Patient Safety curriculum to help healthcare risk management and patient safety professionals understand and apply their key contributions to improved patient care and outcomes. Participants will review the foundational concepts of patient safety and learn to effectively apply them to effect positive change in their organization.

Program Information

Audience
Anyone who wants to understand the foundational concepts of patient safety and learn to effectively apply them to effect positive change.

Curriculum
ASHRM is committed to the development of individual professionals, as well as to the entire healthcare risk management and patient safety profession. As the profession becomes more robust and the knowledge base of the individual is enhanced, risk management and patient safety professionals will be recognized as integral and vital to the success of their organizations.

This curriculum is designed to help healthcare risk management and patient safety professionals understand and apply their key contributions to improved patient care and outcomes.

Part I: Set the Framework

By the end of Part I: Set the Framework, learners will be able to:

• Describe the evolution of patient safety
• Identify the components of a comprehensive patient safety program
• Recognize the linkage between risk management, quality and patient safety
• Articulate the prominent patient safety theories
• Identify the characteristics of a Just Culture
• Explain how human factors influence patient safety outcomes
• Recognize the importance of collaboration and effective communication
• Identify processes for building patient safety into an organization

Credit Information
This program is approved for 13 contact hours of continuing education credit toward fulfillment of the requirements of ASHRM designations of FASHRM (Fellow) and DFASHRM (Distinguished Fellow), and toward CPHRM renewal.

Part II: Take the Lead

By the end of Part II: Take the Lead, learners will be able to:

• Identify multiple sources of patient safety data
• Outline strategies to obtain actionable information from data mining efforts
• Describe the elements of a successful investigation
• Professionally respond to staff reactions to adverse events
• Professionally respond to media and public reactions to adverse events
• Analyze and critique disclosure skills
• Articulate the techniques necessary for retrospective and prospective analysis
• Examine the relationship between medication errors and technology
• Discuss strategies for sustaining change

Credit Information
This program is approved for 13 contact hours of continuing education credit toward fulfillment of the requirements of ASHRM designations of FASHRM (Fellow) and DFASHRM (Distinguished Fellow), and toward CPHRM renewal.

2013 Schedule

April 15 – 18, ASHRM Academy, Dallas, Texas

Patient Safety I: Set the Framework

Patient Safety II: Taking the Lead

October 27 – 30, ASHRM Conference & Exhibition, Austin, Texas

Justify the value of attending
Leading experts, professional contacts, powerful tools, impactful lessons — these are just some of the valuable ways in which participants and their employers can benefit from attending the Patient Safety Curriculum Certificate Program. Learn more about the program benefits and download a customizable letter you can use to convince your employer that this program is too valuable to pass up.

Special needs
If you need any of the auxiliary aids or services identified in the ADA, please contact the ASHRM office at (312) 422-3980.

Cancellations

Registration fees, less a $100 cancellation fee per module, are refundable only if written notice is postmarked no later than 10 business days before each session date. All cancellation and refund requests must be made in writing to: ASHRM, 155 North Wacker, Suite 400, Chicago, IL 60606; fax (312) 422-4580.

ASHRM reserves the right to reschedule or cancel a program because of an insufficient number of registrations or to close registration when programs are full. ASHRM may cancel a program when circumstances beyond ASHRM’s control – including, but not limited to, acts of God, governmental authority or war in the United States – make it impractical or impossible to host the program or may put participants in harm’s way. In such cases, ASHRM will refund one-half of the registration fee paid by the registrant.

Substitutions
Registrants unable to attend may send an alternate. All alternates must attend all sessions. If the alternate is not a member of ASHRM and the original registrant is a member, the nonmember differential must be paid.

E-mail ashrm@aha.org for questions.