Workshops in Patient Safety and Quality

The institute offers a range of training events, from two-hour tutorials to weeklong workshops. Many of these events are available to members of both the Johns Hopkins Medicine community and other health care organizations.

Details: armstronginstitute@jhmi.edu or 410-614-3567.

If you are part of Hopkins Medicine, do not attempt sign up for workshops through the online registration system. Instead, send an email indicating which workshop interests you.

CUSP Workshop
Improving Patient Safety with Human Factors Methods
Lean for Healthcare 2-Day Workshop
Lean Sigma Prescription for Healthcare 5-Day Green Belt Course
Patient Safety Practitioner Program
Transforming the Radiology Practice with Quality

CUSP Workshop
Learn how your organization can adopt CUSP—the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program—to energize patient safety efforts among frontline providers and tackle the hazards that threaten your patients. Adopted by about 40 units at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, CUSP has been used to foster a culture of safety and to target a range of problems: patient falls, poor communication among caregivers, and medication administration errors, among others. CUSP also provided the framework for more than 100 intensive care units in Michigan to drastically reduce central catheter-related bloodstream infections. ICUs across dozens of other U.S. states are seeking to replicate the success of that Hopkins-led project.
Upcoming dates: October 15-16
Details: www.regonline.com/cusp_workshop

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Improving Patient Safety with Human Factors Methods
This workshop focuses on how human factors engineering concepts can be used to identify and mitigate patient safety hazards in your healthcare setting. Basic principles and a variety of human factors engineering methods for hazard identification and mitigation are discussed and demonstrated through examples and hands-on exercises. Clinicians will share their stories on human factors issues and success in their setting. Approved for 8.6 contact hours of continuing nursing education credits.
Upcoming dates: TBA
Details: www.regonline.com/humanfactors

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Lean for Healthcare 2-Day Workshop
Now more than ever, the pressure is on to provide high quality care while increasing efficiency and reducing costs. If you are looking for ways to heal healthcare from within, Lean could be your answer. Armed with Lean tools and techniques, your frontline staff can identify waste in their healthcare delivery processes and then reduce or eliminate that waste. Easy to learn and apply, Lean methodology has helped healthcare organizations to realize many benefits, including reduced patient wait times, faster processing of medications, decreased risk of medication errors, less inventory and more patient-focused processes. Lean can be applied to virtually any system where waste exists.
Upcoming dates: July 10-11, Sept. 18-19
etails: www.regonline.com/leanhealth

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Lean Sigma Prescription for Healthcare® 5-Day Green Belt Course
This powerful methodology combines Lean tools, in their focus on reducing waste and improving flow, with Six Sigma statistical analysis for identifying the causes of defective processes. Lean Sigma can help you to arrive at data-driven interventions for the many chronic operational problems seen in health care. Lean Sigma has been successfully implemented in various areas of hospitals including pharmacy, surgery and the emergency department. The course will prepare participants to complete a Lean Sigma project at their organizations.
Upcoming dates: June 18-22, October 15-19
Details: www.regonline.com/leansigma

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Patient Safety Practitioner Program
The goal of this program is to provide participants the opportunity to understand fundamental concepts and tools to go from good to great and to develop a patient safety strategic plan that will guide their institutions in the development and sustainability of a patient safety program. This includes creating a “culture of safety”, aligning the interests of the clinicians with the goals of the organization, learning from defects in patient care, incorporating human and environmental factors to reduce error, and empowering frontline clinicians by providing them with tools to effectively implement change.
Upcoming dates: Sept. 17-19
Details: www.regonline.com/safetyofficer

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Transforming the Radiology Practice with Quality
Learn how to build a state-of-the-art quality program in radiology that fosters and sustains a safer, more productive and more satisfying work environment. An effective quality program can be an engine for change to help adapt a radiology practice to increasing pressures for greater efficiency, performance and quality.
Upcoming dates: TBA

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