Patient Safety Course

The Patient Safety has become a primary goal for most healthcare providers recently. This course will explore the types of medical errors and how to prevent them, in addition to the JCI patient safety objectives and other important patient safety standards and objectives promulgated by other global organizations.

By the end of this course, you will be familiar with all the methods that can be applied to prevent errors that will enhance your role in patient safety committees, and enhance your knowledge of patient safety in general

• What are the medical error and its impact?
• Causes of medical errors
• How to prevent medical errors
• The Health Care Research and Quality Agency's 18 Safety Objectives
• Communication gap
• Regulatory practices required by the Canadian Accreditation Authority
• Shaping a patient safety culture
• Safe surgical practices
• Dangerous abbreviations
• Antimicrobial Stewardship Program
• Medicines that sound similar in appearance or pronunciation(look alike and sound alike)
• Infection prevention and control
• Risk assessment and prevention of some serious events: falls, deep vein thrombosis, suicide, and other life-threatening events
• International Patient Safety Goals
• Basic safety requirements

In cooperation with Smart Management BH