Pre-Congress Program
 
Patient Safety 101

Wednesday May 14, 2008

Program Overview

The overall purpose of this course is to provide front line, middle management, and top leadership staff who are “new” to patient safety with,

• a solid overview about the background/foundations of patient safety along with,
• brief introductions to various approaches/techniques for detecting and reducing adverse events, and

exposure to nationally recognized patient safety organizations and patient safety resourcesThe content will be relayed through didactic presentation, small and large group discussion, simulation, and storytelling.  Each participant will receive a notebook with all course materials, along with a CD including all presentations.  

At the conclusion of this presentation,
participants will be able to:

• Understand the basic principles of patient safety science (e.g., scope of the problem, lessons from high reliability organizations, etc.).
• Understand the basic principles of human factors engineering, and how it affects patient safety.
• Gain familiarity with various patient safety approaches/techniques and their applicability.
• Know where to get additional information about patient safety in general and various approaches/techniques for patient safety.
• Develop corrective actions to prevent or reduce the impact of adverse events.

 

Agenda
Wednesday, May 14, 2008

8:00am-8:30am	Welcome and Introductions of the Day Caryl Lee, RN, MSN Nurse Director, VA National Center for Patient Safety
8:30am-10:00am	Patient Safety: What’s It All About? Doug Bonacum, MBA, BS Vice President of Safety Management, Kaiser Permanente
10:00am-10:20am	Break
10:20am-11:45am	What’s Human Factors Engineering Got To Do With It? Caryl Lee, RN, MSN Nurse Director, VA National Center for Patient Safety Linda Williams, RN, MSI Program Specialist and Cybrarian, VA National Center for Patient Safety
11:45am-1:00pm	Lunch and Networking
1:00pm-2:30pm	What’s a “Just Culture”? Scott Griffith, MS Chief Operating Officer, Outcome Engineering LLC
2:30pm-2:50pm	Break
2:50pm-3:50pm	Health Literacy Suzanne Graham, RN, PhD Director of Patient Safety, Kaiser Permanente
3:50pm-4:15pm	What Keeps Me Awake at Night? Group Questions and Answers
4:15pm-4:30pm	De-brief and Adjourn