Course description
SafetyQuest: Level Two - Moving Beyond QI Basics
Enduring Material Sponsored by the Stanford University School of Medicine. Presented by the Department of Graduate Medical Education at Stanford University School of Medicine Modern healthcare is complex and has many opportunities for error.
To ensure patient safety, hospitals and healthcare systems must continually strive to work together as a team, create a culture of patient safety, and identify and mitigate risks. SafetyQuest is a sequential series of online CME gaming modules (levels 1 - 4) that provide an innovative and immersive experience to understanding the underlying causes of patient safety issues.
This unique educational program emphasizes a problem-solving approach to preventing errors in all healthcare settings and seeks to ensure that patients are provided with care that supports the key quality aims of the Institute of Medicine. Throughout the series, learners will work to save patients from preventable harm and will errors and will gain problem solving quality improvement and safety tools to approach these issues. Case-based scenarios using multiple game modalities will be used to put these principles into practice and save future lives.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
This course is designed for physicians across all specialty areas.
Prerequisites
Recommended to complete Safety Quest Level One.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
What you'll learn
- Analyze when systematic learning from error is the best response to ensuring patient safety (e.g., 5 Why’s Root Cause Analysis, Pareto, Fishbone diagram) to reduce the risk of adverse events and increase patient safety.
- Utilize best practices such as medicine reconciliation, order sets and checklists and QI tools such as process mapping and systems approach
- Describe key safety and teamwork concepts to promote a positive safety culture.
Course delivery details
This course is offered through Stanford University, a partner institute of EdX.
2-3 hours per week