Understanding Patient Safety: Reducing Risk and Harm in Veterinary Practice (PRAC162-1024)Jenny Guyat, BVetMed, MRCVS
Course Dates: October 2-26, 2024
Enrollment Ends: 5:00 pm ET (USA), October 9, 2024
Real Time Sessions (RTS): Wednesdays, October 9 and 16, 2024; 12:00-2:00 pm ET (USA) World Clock Converter
Total CE Credit: 4
RACE Category: 4 hours Non-Medical
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Tuition: Member $92 ($83 early bird special if enrolled by September 18, 2024) |
Course Information:
We all want our patients to be safe and to reduce the risk of harm, but what does ‘safe’ really mean and what contributes towards a positive safety culture within veterinary practice? What have other industries such commercial aviation, healthcare, nuclear power and rail got to do with reliably achieving positive outcomes within your clinics? How do we respond to unexpected outcomes and errors in a way that supports learning and improvement? What does systems thinking mean and why does this matter for your team? What is the relationship between psychology, behaviour science, ergonomics and reducing risk to veterinary patients? We will explore these questions and many more throughout this course and provide you with the underlying knowledge, supporting science as well as some tangible guidance and tools.
Learning Objectives: Upon completion of the course, the participant should be able to
- define the concept of patient safety within veterinary practice.
- understand the role of systems thinking – looking beyond the individual.
- recognise various models that explain system complexity and how this relates to patient outcomes.
- understand 'work as done' versus 'work as imagined' and how work is perceived by different members of the same team.
- describe how 'Safety I' and 'Safety II' are applied in the veterinary care context.
- utilize models of incident causation.
- define and understand the concept of organizational culture.
- recognize the essential components for a safety culture in practice.
- understand the alternatives to blame culture.
- balance learning with accountability when adverse events are reviewed.
- understand how to support psychologically safer environments and understand how this relates to patient outcomes.
- recognize how to use processes such as observations, audits, surveys, and event reporting to support a learning culture.
Level and Prerequisites: This intermediate VIN CE course is open for enrollment to veterinarians and veterinary technicians/technologists interested in improving patient safety, human factors, quality improvement, and clinical governance.
Credit Approval: This course has been submitted (but not yet approved) for 4 hours of continuing education credit for veterinarians and veterinary technicians/technologists in jurisdictions that recognize RACE approval.
Course Agenda: Week 1 (Real Time Session October 9, 2024): Patient Safety: The Story So Far
Week 2 (Real Time Session October 16, 2024): Reducing Risk and Harm: What Can You Do?
Successful completion (scoring 80% or better) on the end-of-course test is required to earn a certificate of completion for the course. To learn more about the requirements for earning a CE certificate, please refer to Receiving Your CE Credit and Course Completion Certificate. Course Materials: Course materials will be available in the course library prior to each Real Time Session.
Required Textbook(s): There is no required textbook for this course.
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Tuition: Member $92 ($83 early bird special if enrolled by September 18, 2024) |
*To ensure participants are ready and prepared for classes, enrollment will close on October 9, 2024, at 5 pm ET (USA) or when the maximum number of participants is reached. *For more information on how online CE works, see the Participant Resource Center.
Enrollment qualifications:
- VIN CE Courses:
- VIN CE courses are open to VIN member, VIN student member, and non-member veterinarians.
- Veterinary support staff must be VSPN members in order to enroll in a VIN CE course open to VSPN member enrollment.
- VSPN CE Courses:
- VSPN CE courses are open to veterinary support staff and veterinarians.
- Only VIN and VSPN members can enroll in a VSPN CE course.
- Veterinarians will only receive credit for those VSPN CE courses that specify in the Accreditation statement that the course is accredited for veterinarians.
- Please check the course Level and Prerequisites, Accreditation, and Tuition before enrolling.
- Each enrollee must be able to receive emails from @vspn.org
and @vin.com addresses.
- Email is our major form of communication with participants; personal emails are highly recommended rather than clinic/hospital email addresses.
- For further assistance call 800-846-0028 ext. 797 or email CEonVIN@vin.com. Please include the course title, your full name, and contact information in your correspondence.
Course withdrawal and refund policy: A complete refund of the paid course price will be issued when your withdrawal request is received prior to the listed start date of the course. If you wish to withdraw after the start date please contact the VIN office 800-846-0028 ext. 797 to discuss eligibility for a pro-rated refund. *For more information on VIN's upcoming CE courses, check the VIN Course Catalog. VIN CE Services: CEonVIN@vin.com
800-846-0028 or 530-756-4881; ext. 797
or direct line to VIN/VSPN from the United Kingdom: 01 45 222 6154
or direct line to VIN/VSPN from Australia: 02 6145 2357