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: AILearning@jhmi.edu.
If you are part of Hopkins Medicine, do not attempt sign up for workshops through the online registration system. Instead, send an e-mail indicating which workshop interests you.
CUSP Workshop
Evaluating Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Projects
Improving Patient Safety with Human Factors Methods
Leadership in Patient Safety and Quality
Lean for Healthcare 2-Day Workshop
Lean Sigma Prescription for Healthcare 5-Day Green Belt Course
Patient Safety Certificate 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: May 6-7
Details: www.regonline.com/cusp_workshop
Evaluating Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Projects
Despite many attempts to improve quality and patient safety, projects often are not evaluated and cannot later demonstrate whether improvements actually occurred. Among those evaluations that are conducted, a fair portion are done post-hoc, without a guiding conceptual framework or theory, and are underfunded. Further, contextual data that can help explain why some sites achieve greater success than others is often not collected or analyzed, constraining the application of interventions to other settings. This course seeks developing participants’ competencies in the following areas: critiquing evaluations of quality and safety projects; designing a robust evaluation; and conducting a small-scale qualitative study.
Upcoming dates: Sept. 26-27
Details: Register through the Forum on Emerging Topics in Patient Safety website at http://armstronginstitute.cvent.com/safetyforum. Select post-forum workshop registration. Discounts available with forum registration.
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 12 contact hours of continuing nursing education credits.
Upcoming dates: Sept. 26-27
Details: www.regonline.com/humanfactors
Leadership in Patient Safety and Quality
This program prepares health care leaders to guide their organizations to reduce preventable harm, improve patient outcomes and eliminate waste in care delivery. Led jointly by Johns Hopkins faculty and clinicians from the Armstrong Institute and the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, the course combines the science of patient safety with the leadership and management skills needed to influence new behaviors across complex health care organizations. Participants will learn approaches to meet the specific leadership challenges of building a culture of safety and creating a high-reliability organization. These include proactively identifying risks, developing a systematic approach to process improvement, providing the infrastructure for successful safety initiatives, managing innovation and creativity, and using data to guide decisions and drive improvement. They will also learn strategies for improving culture, patient and family engagement, and multidisciplinary teamwork to further their patient safety and quality objectives.
The program is divided into two, four-day residencies.
- Residency 1: Establishing an Organizational Culture of Safety and Improvement
- Residency 2: Implementing Patient Safety Programs. Prerequisite is Residency 1
Residency 1 can be taken independently. Residency 2 further develops participants’ ability to implement and lead patient safety programs, but it is not required.
Upcoming dates: Sept. 26-29 (Residency 1); March 27-30, 2014 (Residency 2)
Details: Register through the Forum on Emerging Topics in Patient Safety website at http://armstronginstitute.cvent.com/safetyforum. Select post-forum workshop registration. Discounts available with forum registration.
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: March 26-27
Details: www.regonline.com/leanhealth
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: May 6-10
Details: www.regonline.com/leansigma
Patient Safety Certificate Program
This course is designed for current practitioners who are dedicated to developing their skills as unit- or clinic-level patient safety leaders. It prepares participants to lead efforts to continuously learn from and improve patient safety and quality care, to promote a culture of safety, to apply system-based approaches to identify and reduce hazards, and to promote the application of evidence based practices that improve patient outcomes. In addition, participants will receive the knowledge and tools to practice and promote interdisciplinary teamwork and encourage care teams to engage patients and their families as partners in their care.
Upcoming dates: April 8-12
Details: http://www.regonline.com/safety_certificate
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