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AHRQ Patient Safety Education and Training Catalog
The Patient Safety Education and Training Catalog consists of 333 patient safety programs available in the United States as of November 28, 2011. Developed by the American Institutes for Research (AIR) from internet searches in 2010 and 2011, the catalog captures a snapshot of available programs at the time. Because new programs are continually being developed, old ones retired, and others revised and improved, interested readers should check the relevant websites for up-to-date information.
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Course Title: "Introduction to Patient Safety" Series Course: Foundations of Patient Safety
Origin/Sponsor: Other; Transparent Learning
Mode of Delivery: Web-based training; Self-directed Study
Content Area(s): Medication Errors/Preventable Adverse Drug Events; Monitoring Errors and Failures; Quality Improvement Strategies; Error Analysis; Logistical Approaches; Regulation; Error Reporting and Analysis; Legal and Policy Approaches; Medication Safety
Target Audience: Health Care Providers; Physicians; Nurses; Health Care Executives and Administrators; Facility and Group Administrators; Nurse Managers; Risk Managers; Quality and Safety Professionals; Non-Health Care Professionals; Policy Makers; Healthcare Students
Certification: Yes
Reach: International
Course Title: "Introduction to Patient Safety" Series Course: Organizations Guiding Quality and Patient Safety
Origin/Sponsor: Other; Transparent Learning
Mode of Delivery: Web-based training; Self-directed Study
Content Area(s): Legal and Policy Approaches; Quality Improvement Strategies; Regulation; Risk Analysis; Driving Change
Target Audience: Health Care Providers; Health Care Executives and Administrators; Non-Health Care Professionals
Certification: Yes
Reach: National
Course Title: 1 Day Human Factors Workshop for Medical Industry Professionals
Origin/Sponsor: Other; Red Forest Consulting; LLC
Mode of Delivery: Classroom Instruction
Content Area(s): Human Factors Engineering; Risk Analysis; Error Analysis; Error Reporting and Analysis
Target Audience: Health Care Providers; Physicians; Nurses; Health Care Executives and Administrators; Facility and Group Administrators; Nurse Managers; Risk Managers; Quality and Safety Professionals; Non-Health Care Professionals; Safety Scientists; Engineers; Policy Makers
Certification: Information Not Available
Reach: National
Course Title: 1/2 Day Human Factors Workshop for Medical Industry Professionals
Origin/Sponsor: Other; Red Forest Consulting; LLC
Mode of Delivery: Classroom Instruction
Content Area(s): Human Factors Engineering; Risk Analysis; Error Analysis; Error Reporting and Analysis
Target Audience: Health Care Providers; Physicians; Nurses; Health Care Executives and Administrators; Facility and Group Administrators; Nurse Managers; Risk Managers; Quality and Safety Professionals; Non-Health Care Professionals; Safety Scientists; Engineers; Policy Makers
Certification: Information Not Available
Reach: National
Course Title: 2 Day Human Factors Workshop for Medical Industry Professionals
Origin/Sponsor: Other; Red Forest Consulting; LLC
Mode of Delivery: Classroom Instruction
Content Area(s): Human Factors Engineering; Risk Analysis; Error Analysis; Continuous Quality Improvement; Quality Improvement Strategies; Error Reporting and Analysis
Target Audience: Health Care Providers; Physicians; Nurses; Health Care Executives and Administrators; Facility and Group Administrators; Nurse Managers; Risk Managers; Quality and Safety Professionals; Non-Health Care Professionals; Safety Scientists; Engineers; Policy Makers
Certification: Information Not Available
Reach: National
Course Title: 2011 Joint Commission Medication Management Standards
Origin/Sponsor: Other; CareLearning
Mode of Delivery: Web-based training; Self-directed Study
Content Area(s): Error Analysis; Error Reporting; Medication Safety ; Specific to High-Risk Drugs; Side Effects/Adverse Drug Reactions; Medication Errors/Preventable Adverse Drug Events; Error Reporting and Analysis
Target Audience: Health Care Providers; Physicians; Nurses; Pharmacists; Health Care Executives and Administrators; Facility and Group Administrators; Nurse Managers; Risk Managers; Quality and Safety Professionals; Non-Health Care Professionals; Policy Makers
Certification: No
Reach: International
Course Title: A Health Literacy Solution
Origin/Sponsor: Other; Emmi Solutions
Mode of Delivery: Web-based training; Self-directed Study
Content Area(s): Communication Improvement; Provider-Patient Communication; Health Literacy Improvement
Target Audience: Health Care Executives and Administrators; Patients
Certification: No
Reach: National
Course Title: ABMS Patient Safety Foundations
Origin/Sponsor: Other; Healthstream
Mode of Delivery: Web-based training; Self-directed Study
Content Area(s): Medication Errors/Preventable Adverse Drug Events; Culture of Safety; Learning Organization; Communication Improvement; Quality Improvement Strategies; Continuous Quality Improvement; Medication Safety
Target Audience: Health Care Providers; Physicians; Nurses; Health Care Executives and Administrators; Facility and Group Administrators; Nurse Managers; Risk Managers; Quality and Safety Professionals
Certification: No
Reach: International
Course Title: ABMS® Patient Safety Improvement Program
Origin/Sponsor: Other; HealthStream
Mode of Delivery: Classroom Instruction; Web-based training; Self-directed Study
Content Area(s): Specific Patient Care Issue; Continuous Quality Improvement; Risk Analysis; Medication Safety ; Medication Errors/Preventable Adverse Drug Events; Teamwork; Structured Hand-offs; Culture of Safety; Quality Improvement Strategies; Human Factors Engineering; Psychological and Social Complications; Communication between Providers; Communication Improvement
Target Audience: Health Care Providers; Physicians; Nurses; Health Care Executives and Administrators; Facility and Group Administrators; Nurse Managers; Risk Managers; Quality and Safety Professionals
Certification: Information Not Available
Reach: International
Course Title: Accountability Matters: Reinforcing Responsibility in a Just Culture
Origin/Sponsor: Other; Brown-Spath
Mode of Delivery: Classroom Instruction; Self-directed Study
Content Area(s): Medication Errors/Preventable Adverse Drug Events; Culture of Safety; Learning Organization; Institutional Patient Safety Plan; Human Factors Engineering; Medication Errors/Preventable Adverse Drug Events; Medication Safety
Target Audience: Health Care Executives and Administrators; Health Care Executives and Administrators; Facility and Group Administrators; Nurse Managers; Risk Managers; Quality and Safety Professionals
Certification: No
Reach: National
Course Title: ACOG Committee on Patient Safety and Quality Improvement
Origin/Sponsor: Other; American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
Mode of Delivery: Classroom Instruction; Self-directed Study
Content Area(s): Quality Improvement Strategies; Continuous Quality Improvement; Medication Errors/Preventable Adverse Drug Events; Specific Patient Care Issue; Communication Improvement; Teamwork Training; Medication Safety ; Teamwork
Target Audience: Health Care Providers; Physicians; Nurses; Health Care Executives and Administrators; Quality and Safety Professionals
Certification: No
Reach: National
Course Title: Addressing Patient Safety Concerns with the Use of Follow-on Biologics
Origin/Sponsor: Other; American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
Mode of Delivery: Web-based training; Self-directed Study
Content Area(s): Medication Safety ; Specific Patient Care Issue; Communication Improvement
Target Audience: Health Care Providers; Physicians; Nurses; Pharmacists; Health Care Executives and Administrators; Facility and Group Administrators; Nurse Managers; Risk Managers
Certification: No
Reach: International
Course Title: Advancing Innovation 7 Sustainable Improvements in Patient Safety
Origin/Sponsor: Other; Brown-Spath
Mode of Delivery: Classroom Instruction; Self-directed Study
Content Area(s): Root Cause Analysis; Institutional Patient Safety Plan; Error Reporting and Analysis; Culture of Safety
Target Audience: Health Care Providers; Physicians; Nurses; Health Care Executives and Administrators; Facility and Group Administrators; Nurse Managers; Risk Managers; Quality and Safety Professionals; Quality and Safety Professionals
Certification: No
Reach: National
Course Title: AHA-NPSF Patient Safety Leadership Fellowship
Origin/Sponsor: Other; American Hospital Association; National Patient Safety Foundation
Mode of Delivery: Classroom Instruction; Web-based training; Self-directed Study
Content Area(s): Quality Improvement Strategies; Communication Improvement; Culture of Safety; Logistical Approaches; Teamwork; Risk Analysis; Continuous Quality Improvement; Driving Change; Human Factors Engineering
Target Audience: Health Care Providers; Allied Health Professionals; Physicians; Health Care Executives and Administrators; Non-Health Care Professionals; Researchers
Certification: Information Not Available
Reach: National
Course Title: Ambulatory Stand Up for Patient Safety Program
Origin/Sponsor: Other; National Patient Safety Foundation
Mode of Delivery: Classroom Instruction; Self-directed Study
Content Area(s): Institutional Patient Safety Plan; Culture of Safety; Communication Improvement; Communication between Providers; Read Back Protocols; Provider-Patient Communication; Human Factors Engineering; Learning Organization; Logistical Approaches; Health Literacy Improvement
Target Audience: Health Care Providers; Physicians; Nurses; Health Care Executives and Administrators; Facility and Group Administrators; Nurse Managers; Risk Managers; Quality and Safety Professionals
Certification: No
Reach: National
Course Title: Anatomy of an Error
Origin/Sponsor: Other; Department of Community and Family Medicine; Duke University Medical Center
Mode of Delivery: Web-based training; Self-directed Study
Content Area(s): Error Analysis; Error Reporting; Human Factors Engineering; Error Reporting and Analysis; Communication Improvement; Teamwork; Communication between Providers
Target Audience: Health Care Providers; Physicians; Nurses; Health Care Executives and Administrators; Facility and Group Administrators; Nurse Managers; Risk Managers; Quality and Safety Professionals
Certification: No
Reach: International
Course Title: Annual Northwest Patient Safety Conference
Origin/Sponsor: Other; The Washington Patient Safety Coalition; Washington State Medical Association.; Foundation for Health Care Quality
Mode of Delivery: Classroom Instruction; Self-directed Study
Content Area(s): Quality Improvement Strategies; Medication Errors/Preventable Adverse Drug Events; Continuous Quality Improvement; Medication Safety
Target Audience: Health Care Providers; Physicians; Nurses; Health Care Executives and Administrators; Facility and Group Administrators; Nurse Managers; Risk Managers; Quality and Safety Professionals
Certification: No
Reach: National
Course Title: Antimicrobial Stewardship: Building the Case and Overcoming the Barriers in Your Institution
Origin/Sponsor: Other; American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
Mode of Delivery: Web-based training; Self-directed Study
Content Area(s): Medication Safety ; Surgical Site Infections; Error Analysis; Specific Patient Care Issue; Error Reporting and Analysis; Surgical Complications; Postoperative Surgical Complications
Target Audience: Health Care Providers; Pharmacists; Health Care Executives and Administrators; Facility and Group Administrators; Nurse Managers; Risk Managers
Certification: No
Reach: International
Course Title: Assessing and Addressing Health Literacy
Origin/Sponsor: Other; American Nurses Association Center for Continuing Education
Mode of Delivery: Web-based training; Self-directed Study
Content Area(s): Provider-Patient Communication; Health Literacy Improvement; Communication Improvement
Target Audience: Health Care Providers; Nurses; Health Care Executives and Administrators; Nurse Managers; Quality and Safety Professionals
Certification: No
Reach: International
Course Title: Assessing and Improving a Culture of Safety in Ambulatory and Inpatient Pediatric Settings
Origin/Sponsor: Other; American Academy of Pediatrics
Mode of Delivery: Web-based training
Content Area(s): Culture of Safety; Teamwork; Quality Improvement Strategies; Communication Improvement; Human Factors Engineering
Target Audience: Health Care Providers; Allied Health Professionals; Physicians; Nurses; Health Care Executives and Administrators; Risk Managers; Quality and Safety Professionals; Healthcare Students
Certification: No
Reach: International