COURSE NO LONGER AVAILABLE – BACKGROUND INFORMATION ONLY
Patient Safety/Quality/Risk Management for Patient Safety
(for Healthcare Facilities)
8-hour course, usually taught 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Contents
Patient Safety, Quality & Risk Management – Creating a Coherent Portfolio
Risk Management Principles
- Identifying Risks
- Assessing/Analysing Risks
- Qualitative Analysis
- Quantitative Analysis
- Controlling/Preventing Risks
- Risk Financing & Claims Management
- Closing Risks
Policies, Procedures, Protocols, Guidelines
Risk Management Case Study
- Identifying Risks – Opening Risks
- Assessing/Analysing Risks – Assigning Statuses to Opened Risks
- Controlling/Preventing Risks – Prioritizing Assigned Statuses
- Monitoring Assigned Priorities
- Changing Assigned Statuses
- Closing Risks
Individualized Risk Management (Risks Chosen by Participants)
Objectives
Upon completion of this course in full, participants will have:
- Demonstrated knowledge of and be able to explain risk management theory and practice as it impacts on the health care system
- Applied critical thinking skills to selected health risk management cases in order to obtain and interpret the information contained in the cases
- Demonstrated an ability to apply health case law and statute law to practical healthcare risk management situations