Patient Safety

Catalog description

Patient safety remains of grave concern in today’s healthcare setting, with errors costing patients quality of life and the system millions of dollars. Students will be exposed to the myriad of errors and adverse events plaguing the healthcare system. Students will explore patient safety from the individual patient perspective as well as from the system level, using comprehensive assessment tools such as Root Cause Analysis to investigate the complex nature of error. Students will be exposed to the work of Edward Codman, James T. Reason and many other who have contributed to finding solutions to this magnanimous problem of patient safety.