About the Learning Update

The Learning Update delivers an upcoming schedule of Department of Defense Patient Safety Program (DoD PSP) and other patient safety activities, tools and resources to help you increase your patient safety knowledge and skills.

Please note that information about patient safety activities are continuously updated. Check out the Calendar of Events on the DoD PSP web site to get the latest details and confirm information provided here.

Patient Safety On-Demand eLearning Courses
Patient Safety Learning Circles



Instructor-led or self-paced online learning sessions focused on a specific product On-Demand eLearning: Patient Safety Reporting System v1.01 eLearning Course This course introduces basic navigation and functionality features of the JPSR system and the roles of system users, such as event reporters, event handlers and investigators. The course can be accessed through MHS Learn. Register now On-Demand eLearning: Root Cause Analysis* This self-paced module outlines the DoD Patient Safety Program’s suggested practices for conducting a root cause analysis, from the initial reporting of a patient safety event through the formation of the RCA Team to the identification of contributing factors and root causes and the recommendation of corrective actions. Register now

In-person or web-based forums focused on a specific topic

TeamSTEPPS^® Webinar – Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Please check our Calendar of Events for updates on this webinar.

The Joint Commission
There are multiple opportunities to attend accreditation and certification webinars offered by The Joint Commission.
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Patient Safety Learning Opportunity

Patient Flow and Patient Safety – Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)* and National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF)**
Aug. 8, 2017 from 1-2 p.m. EDT

Optimizing patient flow throughout the hospital is essential to ensuring safe, high-quality, patient-centered, value-based care. Providing timely access to appropriate care and optimizing hospital flow are both critical levers to increasing value for patients, clinicians, and health care systems.

In this webcast, we will explore high-leverage strategies and interventions to improve hospital-wide patient flow – making sense of the variety of hospital-wide strategies and approaches needed to deliver the right care, in the right place, at the right time

Speakers:

Marti Taylor, MSN, chief executive officer, University Hospital, executive director, The Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
Pat Rutherford, RN, MS, vice president, IHI
Frederick Ryckman, MD, senior vice president for Medical Operations, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

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Patient Safety Learning Opportunity

Workplace Violence in Healthcare Can’t Be the Norm – Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)
Aug. 10, 2017 from 2-3 p.m. EDT

Violence against medical staff is on the rise in the U.S. The circumstances, sources, and types of violent behavior vary – everything from verbal threats to deadly shootings. In response to this situation, major health care organizations are developing new violence-prevention resources, highlighting health systems with notable programs and solutions.

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston is one such organization that will share the solutions they’ve developed thus far.

Speakers:

Pat Folcarelli, RN, PhD, interim vice president, Silverman Institute for Health Care Quality and Safety, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC)
Marsha Mauer, RN, MS, chief nursing officer and senior vice president, BIDMC
Christopher Casey, director of security services, BIDMC

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Antimicrobial Stewardship in the Military Health System – ECRI Institute
Aug. 24, 2017 from 1-2 p.m. EDT

Speakers:

Sharon Bradley, RN, CIC, senior infection preventionist analyst, ECRI Institute
Lt. Col. James Masterson, MPH, PharmD, deputy director, Army Pharmacovigilance Center
Lt. Col. Paige Waterman, MS, MD, director of translational medicine, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research

For more information on registering for this webinar, please e-mail TQMC@ECRI.org or call (610) 825-6000, ext. 5800.

Patient Safety Learning Opportunity

Pursuing Health Equity with Curiosity: Notes from New Initiatives – Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)
Aug. 24, 2017, 2-3 p.m. EDT

Speakers:

Michelle Morse, MD, MPH, founding co-director, Equal Health; assistant program director, Brigham and Women’s Internal Medicine Residency Program
Abigail Ortiz, MSW, MPH, director of community health programs, Southern Jamaica Plain Health Center
Amy Reid, MPH, director, IHI

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*Denotes that activity is eligible for Continuing Education credit. All CE credits are managed by the Postgraduate Institute for Medicine.

**Did you know? As an NPSF Stand Up for Patient Safety member, DoD PSP receives complimentary access to webinars as a benefit of program membership. Check with your facility POC to obtain the member coupon code.