| CODE | HSM5120 | |||||||||
| TITLE | Application of Tools and Practices to Enhance Patient Safety and to Manage Clinical Risk in Context | |||||||||
| 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 builds on the previous study-units by applying the knowledge, understanding and acquired skills in the specific contexts as contextual examples of applying principles of patient safety and clinical risk management while at the same time using tools and frameworks that fit into the specific contexts. Study-unit Aims: The aim is to equip students to understand how the principles of patient safety and clinical risk management can be applied in different contexts in healthcare services. It also aims to enable a culture of safety and to address and prioritise safety in the specific contexts in which safe care can be reliably delivered. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - apply the principles of patient safety and clinical risk management to the interpretation of medical incidents in the specific contexts; - identify organisational factors that need to be addressed to prevent a repetition of the same medical incident in the specific contexts; and - analyse medical incidents from a human factors aspect in the specific contexts. 2. Skills By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - critically analyse a medical incident using a systematic approach framework in the specific contexts; - apply human factors to the interpretation and understanding of adverse events in the specific contexts across the medical and administrative causative factor domains of the different types of medical errors; - formulate error prevention policies and action plans that address systematic failures in the specific contexts; and - support a systematic approach to improve safety culture in the specific contexts. 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: - Hobgood, C. (2012). Patient safety in emergency medicine. In An Introduction to Clinical Emergency Medicine (pp. 691-696). Cambridge University Press. - Anthony, K., Wiencek, C., Bauer, C., Daly, B., & Anthony, M. K. (2010). No interruptions please: impact of a no interruption zone on medication safety in intensive care. - Nydahl, P., Sricharoenchai, T., Chandra, S., Kundt, F. S., Huang, M., Fischill, M., & Needham, D. M. (2017). Safety of patient mobilization and rehabilitation in the intensive. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture, Ind Study, Group Learning and Tutorials | |||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Carmel Abela Trevor Abela Fiorentino Josephine Attard Paul Bezzina Ermira Tartari Bonnici Sandra Buttigieg (Co-ord.) Kevin Cassar Maryrose Cassar Helga Consiglio PATRICK FARRUGIA Yves Muscat Baron David Pace |
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2025/6. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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