| CODE | HSL5003 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Patient Safety in Older Patients | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Health Systems Management and Leadership | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit is intended to equip students with a better understanding and new and updated skills to help them recognise and deal (both at the clinical as well as at the health management and leadership levels) with patient safety issues especially those mostly impacting patient cohorts that are made up of older and frail patients. Study-Unit Aims: The aims of this CPD study-unit are to empower professionals planning for and working with older persons in healthcare settings and/or having health care needs to: - gain knowledge and identify important issues relating to adverse events more commonly experienced by older persons, the relationship between age and adverse events (and relevant antecedent triggers), and factors other than age that affects the risk for and severity of adverse events experienced by older people - be better empowered to impact prevention, reduction and proactive leadership for the management of the risk for adverse events in older people including through interdisciplinary collaboration Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - gain a knowledgeable grounding in the incidence of adverse events in older persons and the influence of age and non-age related factors - appreciate and comprehend patient safety issues for older adults in different settings (hospital, residence, community) and provided with services from different categories of service providers (public and private: for profit and not-for-profit) - recognise diversity within cohorts of older people and how this can affect the implementation and outcomes of patient safety improvement measures 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - identify, apply and adapt tools and approaches that maximise individual, organisational and societal resilience and that can positively impact risk reduction and patient safety for older persons - design, employ, lead and evaluate strategies for prevention, reduction and proactively managing risk for adverse events in older people requiring multi- and inter-disciplinary involvement and team-work Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts: - Vincent, C. (2001). Clinical Risk Management. 2nd Edition, BMJ Books, London - Vincent, C. (2010). Patient Safety. Wiley Books, London - Waterson, P. (Ed.). (2018). Patient safety culture: theory, methods and application. CRC Press Supplementary Readings: - 2023 American Geriatrics Society Beers Criteria庐 Update Expert Panel. (2023). American Geriatrics Society 2023 updated AGS Beers Criteria庐 for potentially inappropriate medication use in older adults. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society From: https://agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jgs.18372?casa_token=lx28rheXbcAAAAA%3ArtHZzpk5-nhInAckXxm0xBrnf59vtJrhfPDU2jJFJAgCTSM4qOH_8j5NvoF_kazapPOwefh7Y8foWvw - National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. (2013). Falls in older people: assessing risk and prevention. NICE. From: https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg161 - British Geriatrics Society 鈥� Patient Safety From: https://www.bgs.org.uk/topics/patient-safety - Tsilimingras, D., Rosen, A. K., & Berlowitz, D. R. (2003). Patient safety in geriatrics: a call for action. The Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, 58(9), M813-M819. - Rand, S., Smith, N., Jones, K., Dargan, A., & Hogan, H. (2021). Measuring safety in older adult care homes: a scoping review of the international literature. BMJ open, 11(3), e043206. From: https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/3/e043206 - Kleinpell, R. M., Fletcher, K., & Jennings, B. M. (2008). Reducing functional decline in hospitalized elderly. In Patient safety and quality: An evidence-based handbook for nurses. In From: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK2629/?report=reader - Gartshore, E., Waring, J., & Timmons, S. (2017). Patient safety culture in care homes for older people: a scoping review. BMC health services research, 17, 1-11. From: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12913-017-2713-2 |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | Pre-requisite Qualifications: Bachelor degree obtained with at least Second Class Honours or Category II | ||||||||||||
| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture, Independent Study, Seminar and Tutorial | ||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Patrick Barbara Ermira Tartari Bonnici Noel Borg Christian Borg Xuereb Sandra Buttigieg Miriam Dalmas (Co-ord.) Maria Aurora Fenech Marvin Formosa Sharon Martinelli Anthony Scerri Corinne Ward |
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