CPHQ Online Review Course | Module 4: Patient Safety
version 2023
This eLearning course is an on-line, on-demand prep product designed for busy professionals who prefer to set the pace of their own study for the Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality® (CPHQ) certification exam. Accessible 24/7, the interactive modules align with the CPHQ content areas and include sample exam items, videos, and activities designed to help learners grasp the essential healthcare quality concepts covered on the CPHQ Examination.
This is an optimal resource for the healthcare quality professional who wishes to earn the CPHQ certification.
This is an optimal resource for the healthcare quality professional who wishes to earn the CPHQ certification.
Description
Errors and near misses in patient safety have a significant effect on patients, families, and care providers. Failures cost healthcare organizations billions of dollars, which they can ill afford to lose. A wide variety of strategies continues to be introduced to accomplish an absolutely safe environment.
In this module, you’ll explore how to:
- Assess organization's culture of safety.
- Identify the role of technology in enhancing patient safety.
- Integrate safety activities throughout the organization.
- Analyze the use of human factors engineering, high reliability, and systems thinking in safety activities.
- Participate in safety and risk management assessment activities, including incident reporting, sentinel event review, root cause analysis, and failure mode and effects analysis.
This topic represents approximately 14% of the CPHQ exam, or 18 total items.