Risk Assessment with FMEA: Preventing Failure Before It Happens
Analyse a process for failure points before a patient is harmed by one.
1. Program overview
Failure mode and effects analysis is the main prospective safety tool in healthcare — it examines a process for what could go wrong rather than waiting for something to. This course takes you through a complete FMEA: assembling the right team, mapping the process in sufficient detail, identifying failure modes at each step, scoring severity, occurrence and detectability, calculating and sensibly interpreting risk priority numbers, and converting the analysis into actions that change the process. It also covers the limits of FMEA and where a different tool serves better.
2. Why this program
- A complete worked FMEA, start to finish.
- Honest about scoring subjectivity and RPN limits.
- Focused on producing actions, not scores.
- Includes when not to use FMEA.
3. Who it is for
Quality Officer · Nurse · Physician · Pharmacist · Healthcare Manager · Allied Health
4. Program objectives
- Explain when prospective risk analysis is preferable to retrospective investigation
- Assemble an appropriate multidisciplinary FMEA team
- Map a clinical process to the level of detail FMEA requires
- Identify failure modes, causes and effects at each process step
- Score severity, occurrence and detectability defensibly
- Convert an FMEA into prioritised, owned process changes
5. Learning outcomes
- Identify failure modes for each step of a described clinical process
- Apply severity, occurrence and detectability scoring to a failure mode
- Calculate and interpret a risk priority number
- Differentiate failure mode, cause and effect
- Prioritise identified risks for action using the effectiveness hierarchy
- Evaluate whether FMEA is the appropriate tool for a stated problem
6. Curriculum
Module 1: Prospective Versus Retrospective
- Prospective Versus Retrospective
Module 2: Scoping and Team
- Scoping and Team
Module 3: Mapping to the Right Detail
- Mapping to the Right Detail
Module 4: Failure Modes, Causes and Effects
- Failure Modes, Causes and Effects
Module 5: Scoring and Prioritising
- Scoring and Prioritising
Module 6: From Analysis to Change
- From Analysis to Change
7. Duration and structure
Total study hours: 3 — 2.5h content + 0.5h assessment. Duration is expressed in study hours only.
9. What you receive
This certificate confirms completion of Risk Assessment with FMEA: Preventing Failure Before It Happens. Duration is expressed in study hours.
10. Delivery format
Self-paced · start any time · any device · lifetime access to the enrolled version.