LINKS

U of WA hazardous waste management course

Washington Patient Safety Coalition (transparency and metrics): 

Washington Medical Case Management Association  

Washington Defense Trial Lawyers

The national defense bar

Qualis Health (medicare, utilization management, patient safety contractor)

Pandemic Preparedness at the Community Level Humanitarian first responders training

WA state public health department

CDC preparedness resources

ASHRM EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES FOR HEALTHCARE RISK MANAGERS

ASHRM Educational Calendar for 2011 includes Barton Certificate and the CPHRM exam prep series:
 

Students may contact the ASHRM foundation for financial assistance
CPHRM classes begin March 3; early bird registration for the Barton Certificate
ends April 22.
 
The Barton Certificate program will also be offered before the Annual Conference,in Phoenix,
(October 13-15, 2011),The Annual Conference is October 16-19, 2011.

The Certified Professional in Healthcare Risk Management designation is a widely respected credential that verifies a broad-based knowledge of healthcare risk management.

ASHRM has developed this webinar series, consisting of six sessions plus an orientation, to help those who are planning to take the CPHRM examination.

Q & A about the CPRHM refresher courses:

What does the curriculum cover?
Who should take these sessions?
When and where will the sessions be offered in 2010?
How do I join ASHRM?

Patient Safety Curriculum

ASHRM’s Patient Safety Curriculum is an interactive training program, intended to help healthcare risk managers enhance their contributions to better patient care and outcomes:

  • Discover the drivers that influence patient safety in the current regulatory and economic environments
  • Identify links among risk management, quality and patient safety
  • Recognize the importance of a defined taxonomy
  • Describe the theory of high reliability and apply it to patient safety
  • Recognize the impact of complexity theory on patient safety
  • Identify the role of clinical microsystems in patient safety initiatives
  • Identify behaviors leading to medical errors

ASHRM EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES FOR HEALTHCARE RISK MANAGERS (cont.)

Patient Safety Tools in the Patient Safety Curriculum:

  • Develop a business case for safety
  • Apply the Ticket to Ride patient transportation process to improve handoffs
  • Select appropriate graphic representations of data for given purposes (substantiate the need for change or measure/monitor change)
  • Develop an organizational plan to address needs of staff,  after an adverse event
  • Analyze and critique disclosure skills
  • Analytical tools for retrospective study situations
  • Describe analysis techniques to identify potential causes of patient harm
  • Apply the decision tree tool to a fact pattern

Who should enroll in the Patient Safety Curriculum?

  • Healthcare risk management professionals
  • Newly designated patient safety professionals
  • Quality professionals
  • Physician patient safety champions
  • Leaders with patient safety oversight
  • Patient safety board members

When and where will the Patient Safety sessions be offered in 2010?
Dates and locations for the 2010 WHCRMS Patient Safety sessions will be announced soon.

General Risk management Courses:

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