Basics of Patient Safety & Risk Management in Healthcare

Learning Objectives:

• Illustrate the impact of medical errors in healthcare and recognize the need for building high reliability organizations.
• Discuss the concept of just culture of safety and accountability.
• Define the essential national and international patient safety goals and apply their required standards in clinical practice.
• Distinguish between types of patient safety events and identify the applied strategies used to mitigate their risk in clinical setting.
• Acquire basic understanding of essential toolkit for risk management including root cause analysis and failure mode and effect analysis.
• Demonstrate how to effectively report and discuss morbidity and mortality events.