National Action Alliance: Webinars

https://www.ahrq.gov/action-alliance/webinars/index.html Recap of Our March Webinar: “Improving Safety Culture Using Teamwork and Patient Safety Norms.” March’s webinar focused on the use of teamwork and patient safety norms to improve the safety culture at the work setting level within hospitals. Dr. Kyle Rehder, MD, began by emphasizing that effective teamwork is not an innate skill, but it can be learned. He reinforced this concept by promoting the TeamSTEPPS framework as a proven method for training healthcare teams that is highly adaptable to any healthcare setting. Patricia Posa, RN, BSN, MSA, CCRN, subsequently shared that harm is not the cost of doing business. Instead, it can be prevented by applying safety measures universally in any inpatient unit by using the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP). She also shared use case examples leveraging errors to learn from defects on a consistent basis. Take advantage of this opportunity to acquire strategies for transforming safety culture. A recording of “Improving Safety Culture Using Teamwork and Patient Safety Norms”, as well as all of our previous webinar recordings and their accompanying PowerPoint slides are available on the National Action Alliance website.