The Armstrong Institute offers a range of training opportunities and healthcare delivery solution services that are available to healthcare professionals everywhere.
Our Offerings
Education and Training
The Armstrong Institute hosts training opportunities throughout the year targeted to a wide range of healthcare professionals, from frontline staff to executives.
JHM Employees: These training opportunities are offered at no cost to you. However, workshop seats are limited.
Our Workshops and Courses
Caring for the Caregiver: The RISE Program
Gain guidance and best practices on setting up peer-responder programs that deliver “psychological first aid" and emotional support to health care professionals following traumatic events.
Upcoming workshops
- Virtual Workshops
- In Person Workshops
- New dates will be posted shortly.
Ambulatory CUSP (Comprehensive Unit Based Safety Program) Training
Ambulatory CUSP is delivered during a two-day workshop using an innovative game platform to simulate the experience of preparing a team to work together towards safety goals, launching the CUSP team, and sustaining an effective, engaged team over time.
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Ambulatory Hero Education
This course focuses on educating staff members across the health system on patient safety event reporting in the Johns Hopkins Medicine Hero event reporting system, with a focus on ambulatory settings.
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Evaluating Quality Improvement and Patient Safety
Prepare participants to evaluate quality improvement and patient safety projects in the following three areas: critiquing evaluations of projects; designing a robust evaluation of a QI/PS project; and conducting a small-scale qualitative study.
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CUSP Implementation Training
Improve culture and empower frontline staff to mitigate hazards using the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) in an interactive one-day workshop, online learning and remote coaching program.
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Human Factors Methods
See how the use of human factors engineering methods can identify and mitigate system problems that cause human errors and patient safety hazards in health care.
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Ambulatory Safety Event Reporting Education
This course focuses on educating staff members across the health system on patient safety event reporting in the Johns Hopkins Medicine Hero event reporting system.
Observership
Gain patient safety and quality improvement strategies and resources with an in-depth introduction to Johns Hopkins Medicine's prioritized approach to delivering consistently safe, high-quality and high-value patient care.
Leadership Academy
This nine-month program trains future healthcare leaders to create a culture of caring. This program is for Johns Hopkins Medicine employees only.
“Defining a ‘Quality’ Project” Workshop
This workshop will provide tips and hands-on exercises to identify and define Quality Improvement or Process Improvement (QI/PI) projects.
Upcoming workshops:
New dates will be posted shortly.