Safety culture is a facet of organizational culture that captures attitudes, beliefs, perceptions, and values about safety. A culture of safety is essential in high reliability organizations and is a critical mechanism for the delivery of safe and high-quality care. It requires a strong commitment from leadership and staff. In this course, a safe culture is promoted through the use of identifying and reporting patient safety hazards, accountability and transparency, involvement with patients and families, and effective teamwork.
This course is part of the Patient Safety Specialization
Setting the Stage for Success: An Eye on Safety Culture and Teamwork (Patient Safety II)
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What you will learn
Review essential elements of a safety culture.
Describe how healthcare organizations identify and mitigate safety hazards.
Identify how patients and family members contribute to developing a safety culture.
Identify strategies for improving communication and teamwork .
Skills you will gain
CommunicationHealthcare LeadershipOrganizational CulturePatient Safety
Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Week
1Patient Safety Culture and Just Culture
In this module, learners will develop an understanding of what safety culture is and why it matters, how safety culture influences outcomes, how culture is assessed, and how strategies for improvement can be developed. Learners will become familiar with the Just Culture model and how it is used when appropriating blame and accountability for human error, at risk behaviors, and reckless behaviors.
6 videos (Total 53 min), 2 readings, 1 quiz
6 videos
Defining Safety Culture11m
The Influence of Safety Culture on Patient and Provider Outcomes10m
Measuring Culture14m
Just Culture7m
Application of Just Culture5m
2 readings
11 Tenets of a Safety Culture10m
CUSP Tool: Culture Check-up Process10m
1 practice exercise
Lesson 1 Quiz20m
Week
2Patient Safety, Quality, and the Patient Experience
The patient experience encompasses a range of interactions patients have with the healthcare system. Understanding patients' expectations and learning from their experiences is key to designing safer care delivery systems and providing patient and family-centered care.
6 videos (Total 47 min), 4 readings, 1 quiz
6 videos
How Do We Measure the Patient Experience?7m
Patient and Family Centered Care and Engagement6m
Patient and Family Advisory Council: Definition and Roles5m
Engaging the Heart of the Caregiver5m
Using Improvement Science to Create a Positive Sustainable Patient Experience15m
4 readings
Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS)10m
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services: Hospital Compare10m
Harnessing Evidence and Experience to Change Culture10m
Advancing the Practice of Patient and Family Centered Care in Hospitals10m
1 practice exercise
Lesson 2 Quiz20m
Week
3Event Reporting and Second Victims
Patient safety event reports are a critical data source for identifying and mitigating harm in high reliability organizations; yet, many healthcare organizations do not take full advantage of this data. At the conclusion of this module, learners will understand how event reports should be used to design safer care systems and how organizations can provide support to staff involved in medical errors.
12 videos (Total 75 min), 2 readings, 1 quiz
12 videos
Journey of an Event Report3m
Event Reporting and High Reliability3m
Using Event Reports to Improve Safety and Culture3m
Reporting Culture4m
Using Event Reports to Design Safer Systems: Part I2m
Using Event Reports to Design Safer Systems: Part II5m
A Sample Event Review Meeting12m
Introduction to the Learning from Defects Tool12m
Disclosure of Medical Errors2m
Second Victims7m
Peer Support: Making a Difference for Second Victims8m
2 readings
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: Common Formats10m
Learning from Defects Tool10m
1 practice exercise
Lesson 3 Quiz20m
Week
4Strengthening Safety Culture Through Teamwork
Research shows that many errors can be attributed to breakdowns in teamwork and communication. In this module, participants will learn how safety culture can be strengthened though teamwork and communication. Participants will learn skills critical in the prevention and mitigation of medical errors.
8 videos (Total 94 min), 3 readings, 1 quiz
8 videos
Teamwork and the Science of Safety12m
Team Training15m
Communication11m
Leadership12m
Briefings and Debriefings10m
Measuring Teamwork for Improvement12m
Cross-unit Collaboration8m
3 readings
TeamSTEPPS 2.010m
Care Coordination Measures Atlas Update10m
Edgar Schein: Humble Inquiry (Optional)10m
1 practice exercise
Lesson 4 Quiz20m
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By NV•May 10th 2018
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By SS•Apr 15th 2018
Being a GP, it is an added value to the personality of myself to be able to become a better leader and advocate for having to implement safe clinical environment.
About Johns Hopkins University
The mission of The Johns Hopkins University is to educate its students and cultivate their capacity for life-long learning, to foster independent and original research, and to bring the benefits of discovery to the world.
About the Patient Safety Specialization
Preventable patient harms, including medical errors and healthcare-associated complications, are a global public health threat. Moreover, patients frequently do not receive treatments and interventions known to improve their outcomes. These shortcomings typically result not from individual clinicians’ mistakes, but from systemic problems -- communication breakdowns, poor teamwork, and poorly designed care processes, to name a few.
The Patient Safety & Quality Leadership Specialization covers the concepts and methodologies used in process improvement within healthcare. Successful participants will develop a system’s view of safety and quality challenges and will learn strategies for improving culture, enhancing teamwork, managing change and measuring success. They will also lead all aspects of a patient safety and/or quality improvement project, applying the methods described over the seven courses in the specialization.
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When will I have access to the lectures and assignments?
Once you enroll for a Certificate, you’ll have access to all videos, quizzes, and programming assignments (if applicable). Peer review assignments can only be submitted and reviewed once your session has begun. If you choose to explore the course without purchasing, you may not be able to access certain assignments.
What will I get if I subscribe to this Specialization?
When you enroll in the course, you get access to all of the courses in the Specialization, and you earn a certificate when you complete the work. Your electronic Certificate will be added to your Accomplishments page - from there, you can print your Certificate or add it to your LinkedIn profile. If you only want to read and view the course content, you can audit the course for free.
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