| Unit name | Patient Safety and Risk Management |
|---|---|
| Unit code | MEEDM0033 |
| Credit points | 0 |
| Level of study | M/7 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Academic Year (weeks 1 - 52) |
| Unit director | Dr. Grant |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
None |
| Co-requisites |
Registration on the two linked units ie Patient Safety & Risk Management (0 credits) and the Healthcare |
| School/department | Bristol Medical School |
| Faculty | Faculty of Health Sciences |
This unit aims to enhance learners ability to critically analyse issues around Patient Safety and Risk Management. It also offers opportunity for learners to reflect on patient safety events and consider quality improvement solutions.
The aim of this unit will be to:
1. Provide students with a detailed understanding of the impact of patient safety events in healthcare.
2. Provide students with a detailed understanding of the methods involved in analysing the need for change in practice in healthcare. This includes the planning, designing and implementing a sustainable change for everyday practice in healthcare.
On completion of the unit, students should be able to
A: Knowledge and Understanding of:
1. Compare the differences and relations between Safety Management, Risk Management, Health and Safety and Patient Safety.
2. Identify practical applications of internal and external components of Risk Management.
3. Understand human factors theory and its impact on safety.
4. Differentiate relationships and co-dependencies between Risk Management, Patient Safety, Quality Improvement, Education and Learning Organisations.
5. Discuss key features and skills required to effectively manage and sustain change in their own context.
B: Intellectual Skills /Attributes:
1. Identify personal skills to engage stakeholders.
2. Reflect and provide critical analysis of patient safety events.
3. Demonstrate criticality towards literature and theory relevant to health care improvement and organisational learning
C: Other Skills /Attributes (Practical/Professional/Transferable):
1. Investigate and analyse a patient safety event reflecting and drawing own conclusions on a change in practice.
2. Propose and develop an action plan to implement change in practice to address skill knowledge gap.
3. Consider how this sustainable change could be managed.
The unit will be delivered through a mixture of short lectures, discussion, case study work, readings, and group and individual exercises. There will be some compulsory pre-course work which will include core readings and critical analysis which the students are required to carry out. The use of the Blackboard online learning environment will be actively pursued to develop students’ understanding and engagement with the unit content.
The unit structure offers 18 contact hours in total. The remaining 182 learning hours will be spent in independent study and in the preparation of assessment.
Formative Assessment :
1: Draft written assignment of 500 words prose outlining reflection a patient safety event.
Student feedback given.
2: Write a 3000 reflection on a patient safety event or a proposed change in practice.
Define the type of Safety or Management issue and justify why using the literature.
Propose and develop an action plan to implement a change in practice to address skill knowledge gap.
Consider how this sustainable change could be managed.
Students must successfully engage with this unit, which will be assessed by attendance and engagement with learning at the study days and engagement with the formative assessment tasks.
No summative assessment is linked to this 0 credit unit. Assessment is delivered, and credit awarded, via the Healthcare Improvement Capstone Assessment Unit. Students will be expected to build on this formative written reflection in the Assessment Unit with a summative written project.
WHO Patient Safety Guide 2006.
Australian Safety and Quality Framework for Health Care 2010
Hollnagel
Dekker (2006) The Fifth Element.
