312276 (v.1) Human Factors and Patient Safety 591

Area:	School of Nursing and Midwifery
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	45.0
The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.
Lecture:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Seminar:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Syllabus:	This Unit will provide students with an overview of key issues and trends in clinical patient safety in medical and health care settings; introduce theories of human error and human factors in medical and health care settings, and provide appropriate clinical risk management tools and methods for use in medical and health care settings. At the end of this Unit, students will demonstrate an understanding of the theory and systems underlying medical and clinical error, human error, human factors and patient safety improvement, be able to apply these theories to the identification and analysis of clinical incidents and adverse events in medical and other health care settings, and apply appropriate quality improvement, clinical risk management tools and mitigation methods to identify, assess and manage patient safety issues in medical and health care organisations.
To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement.
Field of Education:	060100 Medical Studies (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Not Categorised *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type:	Grade/Mark

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