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Patient Safety & Risk
Patient Safety Foundations: Systems, Error and Harm Prevention
Why safe people still make unsafe mistakes — and what actually prevents harm.
foundation180 min5 lessons
What you'll learn
- Classify a described incident as active failure, latent condition or both
- Identify at least four system defences applicable to a given clinical process
- Differentiate between blame-based and systems-based responses to an incident
- Apply the hierarchy of intervention effectiveness to a proposed safety fix
- Describe the conditions that reliably increase error risk on a clinical unit
- Recommend a proportionate first response to a near miss
Course content
5 modules · 5 lessons
1. Harm in Healthcare: The Scale of the Problem
- Harm in Healthcare: The Scale of the ProblemPreview36m
2. How Error Happens
- How Error Happens36m
3. Systems, Not People
- Systems, Not People36m
4. Defences That Work
- Defences That Work36m
5. Responding to a Near Miss
- Responding to a Near Miss36m