This course is presented by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Are you ready to take your career in patient safety and quality to the next level? The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement: Foundations for Early Career Professionals course is designed to sharpen your skills and boost your effectiveness in driving meaningful change. This hands-on course will empower individuals who work on a Patient Safety or Quality team and who want to deepen their understanding of safety and quality concepts and their practical applications in a busy health system. This could be your first step toward a successful career in safety, quality, and quality improvement. Whether you're an individual looking to advance your career or a leader seeking to upskill your team, this program provides an engaging and supportive learning environment. Learn from expert faculty who have hands-on experience in leading patient safety and quality improvement teams to success. You'll gain practical insights and strategies, along with dedicated time to plan how to apply your new knowledge for immediate impact.
The program will improve your skills in the following areas:
- Event Reporting & Management: Improve your ability to collect and analyze event data for trends and insights, manage event reporting systems, and understand optimal RCA processes
- Data Analysis & Reporting: Add to your skills tools to benchmark and create reports, track event metrics, and conduct analysis to inform process improvements
- Regulatory Compliance & Risk Management: Strengthen your understanding of your organization’s regulators, and their responsibility to be compliant with safety goals and quality measures
- Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement: Enhance your skills in Fostering collaboration across departments and with leadership to drive safety and quality initiatives and process improvements
- Process Improvement & Strategic Initiatives: Build comprehension in quality improvements, how to leverage and when it can be beneficial in making change
As a result of the program, you will be able to:
- Analyze relationships and concepts in patient safety and quality.
- Describe the impact of external Influences on your organization's patient safety and quality agenda.
- Leverage the systems and processes for effective safety event management and learning.
- Identify your role in promoting and sustaining a culture of safety in your department and across the system.
- Explain quality and safety measures effectively and how quality Improvement can be of great benefit in prioritizing and improving those opportunities.
This class consists of nine self-directed modules and six live virtual sessions over 14 weeks, plus six weeks of extended access.