Modern healthcare is complex and has many opportunities for error. To ensure patient safety, hospitals and healthcare systems must continually strive to work together as a team, create a culture of patient safety, and identify and mitigate risks. SafetyQuest is a sequential series of online CME gaming modules (levels 1 - 4) that provide an innovative and immersive experience to understanding the underlying causes of patient safety issues. This unique educational program emphasizes a problem-solving approach to preventing errors in all healthcare settings and seeks to ensure that patients are provided with care that supports the key quality aims of the Institute of Medicine. Throughout the series, learners will work to save patients from preventable harm and will gain problem solving quality improvement and safety tools to approach these issues. Case-based scenarios using multiple game modalities will be used to put these principles into practice and save future lives.
What you will learn
At the conclusion of this activity, participants should be able to:
Integrate best practice patient safety and goals of care (GOC) communication techniques (e.g. IPASS handoffs, SBAR communication, stop the line/CUS words/call for help early, debriefing, GOC documentation) into practice with teams to reduce the risk of adverse events and increase patient safety.
Utilize principles from the Joint Commission’s National Patient Safety Goals to reduce the risk of adverse events and increase patient safety.
Apply QI tools and concepts such as PDCA, A3, high reliability, and the swiss cheese model to improve the quality of care for your patients.
Topics include
Introduction
Test Your Knowledge
Level One: QI Basics
Case 1 | QI Tool: Swiss Cheese | Wrong Patient
Case 3 | QI Tool: Critical Language | Missing Code Status
Case 4 | QI Tool: PDCA | Catheter Associated UTI
Case 7 | QI Tool: Time-Out | Wrong Side
Case 11 | QI Tool: High Reliability | Unclean Hands
Course Wrap-Up
Resources and References
Help!
Notes
To Obtain CME Credits
Review the information below and complete the entire activity.
Complete the CME Post-test, CME Assessment Survey, and CME Activity Completion Statement at the end of the activity.
You must receive a score of 75% or higher on the post-test in order to receive a certificate. You will have two attempts to answer each multiple-choice question (or one attempt for questions with only two options) to pass the post-test.
Once you attest to completing the entire online activity and have scored 75% or higher on the post-test, your certificate will be generated automatically and will be available on your Dashboard page.
Physicians will be awarded AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. All other participants will receive a Certificate of Participation.
To Obtain CME Credits
Review the information below and complete the entire activity.
Complete the CME Post-test, CME Assessment Survey, and CME Activity Completion Statement at the end of the activity.
You must receive a score of 75% or higher on the post-test in order to receive a certificate. You will have two attempts to answer each multiple-choice question (or one attempt for questions with only two options) to pass the post-test.
Once you attest to completing the entire online activity and have scored 75% or higher on the post-test, your certificate will be generated automatically and will be available on your Dashboard page.
Physicians will be awarded AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. All other participants will receive a Certificate of Participation.