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Patient Safety & Risk
Human Factors in Clinical Practice: Designing Out Error
How fatigue, interruption, workload and poor design shape clinical performance.
professional180 min6 lessons
What you'll learn
- Identify the human factors contributing to a described clinical error
- Evaluate a clinical workspace for interruption and distraction risk
- Differentiate design-induced error from knowledge-based error
- Apply a structured handover format to a complex patient
- Recommend three practical alarm-burden reductions for a given unit
- Prioritise human factors interventions by expected effect
Course content
6 modules · 6 lessons
1. The Limits of Human Performance
- The Limits of Human PerformancePreview30m
2. Interruption and Distraction
- Interruption and Distraction30m
3. Design That Causes Error
- Design That Causes Error30m
4. Alarms and Cognitive Load
- Alarms and Cognitive Load30m
5. Fatigue, Shift Work and Judgement
- Fatigue, Shift Work and Judgement30m
6. Surveying Your Own Area
- Surveying Your Own Area30m