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Patient Safety 101 Microcredential - Milestone 3
In this SaferCare Texas Microcredential, enrollees learn the core concepts of patient safety. Upon completing this training, participants the gain knowledge and skills to facilitate patient safety embedded leadership skills and mindsets that address patient safety issues that eliminate preventable harm. Patient safety, in alignment with the Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI), addresses not only patient safety but also workforce safety by making patient healthcare safer by both reducing harm and preventable mortality and ensuring the safety and resiliency of the organization and healthcare workforce, a precondition to advancing patient safety.
In the past 20 years, patient safety has become a major concern for our healthcare system and providers, although evidence-based, effective best-care practices are seldom shared and implemented. Issues related to knowledge base, leadership, culture, and building skills are necessary to avoid preventable harm to key stakeholders such as healthcare organizations, clinicians, and, most importantly, the patient. Providing this information to future healthcare clinicians, staff, and faculty can provide a basic knowledge base and introduction to implementing patient safety practices in a variety of healthcare settings. When implemented, patient safety concepts can work on all three levels of healthcare (patient, provider, and system) to prevent, treat, or even reverse patient safety issues for an array of disciplines of healthcare students, staff, or faculty. This micro-credential allows participants to learn about the basics of patient safety and practice patient safety skills.
Target Audience
This activity is intended for physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, pharmacists, and social workers.Other healthcare professionals may also benefit from this educational activity.
Learning Objectives
The overarching objectives for the full micro-credential are: participants should be able to: CLO 1: Identify the core concepts of patient safety and quality improvement; CLO 2: Identify the basic concepts of Just Culture and healthcare leadership; CLO 3: Identify the foundations of high-reliability organizations; CLO 4: Identify the basics of quality improvement with PDSA cycles.
Milestone 3 Objectives applicable to this activity are:
These MLOs will contribute to your ability to meet the Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs) as noted below. By the conclusion of this training, learners will be able to:
MLO 3.2: Examine available tools used to ensure high reliability. (CLO3)
- MLO 3.3: Apply high-reliability tools to solve scenarios. (CLO3)
Kate Taylor, DNP, FNP-C, CPPS, FNAP
Teresa Wagner, DrPH, MS, CPH, RD/LD, CPPS, FNAP, CHWI, DipACLM, CHWC
Jennifer Barrow, RN, MSN
Kate Taylor, DNP, FNP-C, CPPS, FNAP
Teresa Wagner, DrPH, MS, CPH, RD/LD, CPPS, FNAP, CHWI, DipACLM, CHWC
Jennifer Barrow, RN, MSN
Kate Taylor, DNP, FNP-C, CPPS, FNAP
Teresa Wagner, DrPH, MS, CPH, RD/LD, CPPS, FNAP, CHWI, DipACLM, CHWC
Accreditation Statements
In support of improving patient care, The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing Education for the healthcare team.
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit.
American Osteopathic Association
The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth is accredited by the American Osteopathic Association to award continuing medical education to physicians.
Designation Statements
Physicians
The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth designates this program for a maximum of 1.0 contact hours of AOA Category 2B CME credits and will report CME and specialty credits commensurate with the extent of the physician's participation in the activity.
The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth designates this activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Pharmacist
This knowledge-based activity has been assigned UAN JA0004637-0000-23-040-H05-Pand will award 1 contact hour of continuing pharmacy education credit in states that recognized ACPE Providers.
Statements of participation will indicate hours and CEUs based on participation and will be issued online at the conclusion of the activity. Successful completion includes completing the activity, its accompanying evaluation and/or posttest (score 70% or higher) and requesting credit online at the conclusion of the activity.
Credit will be uploaded to CPE Monitor, and participants may print a statement of credit or transcript from their NABP e-profile. HSC complies with the Accreditation Standards for Continuing Pharmacy Education.
Nurses
This activity provides up to 1.0 contact hours.
Social Workers
Social Workers completing this course receive 1.0 contact hours of continuing education credits.
Certificate of Attendance
The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth certifies this activity for1.0 hours of participation.
Available Credit
- 1.00 ACPE Pharmacy
- 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 1.00 ANCC
- 1.00 ASWB Credit
- 1.00 HSC Participation
Price
This learning activity is a required element of the UNTHSC Patient Safety 101 Microcredential and is intended for ONLY those enrolled in that microcredential course.
To register for the UNTHSC Patient Safety 101 Microcredential, please visit HSC Learning Plus.
Prerequisites
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Accessibility Statement
If you require special assistance to participate in this activity, please call (817) 735-2539 or email: register@unthsc.edu. An Equal Opportunity University.