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
Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP)
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.
Resilience in Stressful Events (RISE) Program
Gain guidance and best practices on setting up peer-responder programs that deliver “psychological first aid" and emotional support to healthcare professionals following traumatic events.
TeamSTEPPS
Tackle the teamwork and communication failures that can lead to patient harm by developing an effective, sustainable team training program that is tailored to your organization.
Human Factors
Discover how using human factors engineering methods can identify and mitigate system problems that cause human errors and patient safety hazards in health care.
Lean Sigma for Healthcare
Identify and eliminate waste in health care delivery, including reduced patient wait times, faster processing of medications, decreased risk of medication errors, less inventory and more patient-focused processes.
Healthcare Analytics and Improvement
These programs are designed to help participants overcome the challenges of improving health systems' key strategic metrics.
Safety Event Reporting Education
These courses focus 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.
Quality Projects
This course prepares participants to evaluate quality improvement and patient safety (QI/PS) projects through critiquing evaluations of projects, designing a robust evaluation of a QI/PS project and conducting a small-scale qualitative study.
PERLHS Academy
This training program is for our embedded scholars in the Johns Hopkins system and targets core- and specialized competencies that are needed to conduct comparative effectiveness research and patient-centered outcomes research within a learning health system.
