Patient Safety Essentials
In today's fast-paced healthcare landscape, ensuring patient safety is a fundamental responsibility for every healthcare professional. Patient Safety Essentials is an online learning program developed to provide a clear and practical understanding of core patient safety principles. This course equips learners with the knowledge and skills needed to support safer healthcare practices, improve quality of care, and contribute to positive outcomes across healthcare settings in Canada.
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Learning Outcomes
What you'll learn
- Examine the development and progression of patient safety over time, and gain new perspectives on how patient safety can be understood, discussed, and integrated into everyday practice.
- Recognize the effects of patient safety events on patients, families, healthcare professionals, care teams, organizations, and the wider community.
- Understand how system design, organizational processes, and other systemic factors influence patient safety and contribute to adverse events.
- Develop an understanding of cultural safety principles and explore ways healthcare professionals can support reconciliation and provide culturally respectful care.
- Learn approaches for reviewing and learning from patient safety incidents to reduce risks and prevent similar occurrences in the future.
- Explore proactive strategies that promote a comprehensive approach to patient safety and support the delivery of safer, high-quality care.
Learning Outcomes
What you'll learn
- Examine the development and progression of patient safety over time, and gain new perspectives on how patient safety can be understood, discussed, and integrated into everyday practice.
- Recognize the effects of patient safety events on patients, families, healthcare professionals, care teams, organizations, and the wider community.
- Understand how system design, organizational processes, and other systemic factors influence patient safety and contribute to adverse events.
- Develop an understanding of cultural safety principles and explore ways healthcare professionals can support reconciliation and provide culturally respectful care.
- Learn approaches for reviewing and learning from patient safety incidents to reduce risks and prevent similar occurrences in the future.
- Explore proactive strategies that promote a comprehensive approach to patient safety and support the delivery of safer, high-quality care.
Modules
Module 1
Understanding the Evolution of Patient Safety
Module 2
Effects and Consequences of Patient Harm
Module 3
Factors Contributing to Healthcare Failures
Module 4
Principles of Cultural Safety in Care Delivery
Module 5
Reviewing and Learning from Patient Safety Incidents
Module 6
Building and Maintaining a Culture of Safety
Module 7
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Frequently Asked Questions
The Patient Safety Essentials course covers patient safety principles, incident analysis, cultural safety, safety culture, incident reporting, disclosure, and strategies to improve safe, high-quality care.
Yes, you will receive a certification upon successful completion of the Patient Safety Essentials course.
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Yes, this course is suitable for healthcare professionals, caregivers, and support staff involved in delivering or supporting safe patient care.