CLINICAL PROCESS IMPROVEMENT (CPI) - TEAM WORKSHOP
Session Description: Practicing and reinforcing safety skills are key elements in effective learning. A longitudinal team-based approach is employed in patient safety education in InFocus. It is through practice and reinforcement during the clinical clerkships and these CPI team workshops that medical students begin to appreciate common situations facing patients that can only be learned through experience and discussion.
Speaker: Various. See Team Assignments Sheet
Location: See Team Assignments Sheet
Learning Objectives: At the end of this session, the student learners will:
- Gather data in teams by utilizing your observation and interviewing skills to outline a clinical process
- Synthesize multiple parts of a clinical process from the patient and provider perspectives
- Diagram a clinical process using process map tools
Pre-Session Assignment: Review process map completed in IF5
- Mount Sinai Hospital Resources
Information about HIPPA, Infection Control (including policies for catheters, ventilators, isolation), Quality Initiatives (handoff, critical lab results, medication reconciliation, patient identification - Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) - Open School
Web based on line curriculum with topics in patient safety, quality improvement and leadership. - Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) - Resources
Website section with improvement stories for health care organizations, patient and provider stories about safety, and opportunities to get involved with IHI. - Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research (AHRQ) - Hospital Compare
Medicare based website which allow users to compare hospitals across publically reported quality improvement and patient safety domains. - Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research (AHRQ) - Patient safety resources
- Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research (AHRQ) - Patient safety resources
Brief monographs on core patient safety topics - Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research (AHRQ) - Quality Improvement resources
- Partnership for Patients
National program that partners patients, providers and hospitals to reduce many common adverse events in health care including hospital acquired infections, adverse drug events, falls, and venous thromoembolism.