Certified

Healthcare Safety Officer Program

Program Description

The Certified Healthcare Safety Officer Certificate Program is a comprehensive three-month education and training program designed to equip healthcare professionals with the knowledge and skills necessary to ensure patient safety in healthcare organizations. The program covers a wide range of topics, including fundamental concepts of patient safety, CPPS Program framework, individual and system approaches to safety, error reporting systems, tools and solutions for safety issues, human factors in healthcare errors, clinical risk management, establishment of an institutional framework for clinical excellence, professional liabilities and litigations, learning from claims analysis, safety concerns in specialized care departments, redesigning error-prone processes, safe health design, role of leadership in achieving healthcare safety, highly reliable healthcare organization, and the role of AI in achieving patient safety.

Program Objectives

• Understand the fundamental concepts of patient safety and its importance in healthcare organizations.

• Adopt the contents of CPPS Program to achieve high levels of safety.

• Differentiate between individual and system approaches in addressing safety concerns.

• Facilitate the design and implementation of effective error reporting systems.

• Select the most appropriate tools and solutions for different safety scenarios.

• Comprehend the impact of human factors on healthcare errors and mitigation strategies.

• Appreciate the integration of clinical risk management in strategic, executive, and operational plans.

• Establish an institutional framework for achieving clinical excellence.

• Understand professional liabilities and litigations in healthcare.

• Learn from claims analysis to improve patient safety.

• Identify, prioritize, and mitigate safety concerns in specialized care departments.

• Initiate and facilitate activities for redesigning complex and error-prone processes.

• Integrate safe health design principles into healthcare organizations.

• Understand the role of leadership in achieving healthcare safety.

• Comprehend the characteristics and principles of highly reliable healthcare organizations.

• Recognize the role of AI in achieving patient safety.

Program Outline

Module 1: Review and Study course for CPPS exam

• Culture for Healthcare Safety

• Leadership Role in achieving Healthcare Safety

• Patient Safety Risks & Solutions

• Measuring & Improving Performance

• Systems Thinking & Design / Human Factors

• Apply systems thinking to improve processes

Module 2: Achieving Clinical Safety

• Clinical Risk Management

• Safety Concerns in Specialized Care Departments

• Medication Safety

• Professional Liabilities and Litigations

• Learning from Claims Analysis

Module 3: Creating robust structure for Patient Safety

• Safe Health Design

• Environmental Safety, Fire Safety, Air and Water Safety, and Security

• Infection Prevention and Control for Patient and Provider Safety

• Safe Adoption of Technology

• Role of AI in Achieving Patient Safety