Organisational Aspects of Risk, Safety and Quality
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| NURS4500 | Nursing | 4 | 20 | Spring UK |
- Code
- NURS4500
- School
- Nursing
- Level
- 4
- Credits
- 20
- Semesters
- Spring UK
Summary
This course considers:
- The strategic and operational structures and approaches to risk and its management at the organisational and policy level;
- The social, political and cultural dynamics of organising and managing for safety, including the role of regulatory bodies and patient-public involvement in guiding and governance of system change;
- Concepts and methods of organisational learning and change along with monitoring and implementing improvement;
- The concept of organisational and professional culture in relation to safety and improvement;
- The utilisation and challenges of quality improvement when located in a systems context.
Target Students
Professionals with an interest in developing improvement initiatives in health and social care settings.Professionals associated with, or leading in, health, veterinaryand social care settings as an example.
Classes
The course will comprise 60 hours tutor led taught sessions and 140 hours self-directed study and tutorial support
Assessment
- 100% Assignment: A written assignment of up to 3,000 words. Students must take either A project report which applies concepts and debates to practical experiences of quality and safety improvementOR An essay which applies theories and debates in more abstract terms to the challenges of quality and safety improvement.
Assessed by end of designated period
Educational Aims
The aims of the course are for participants to be able to:Understand how care quality and safety are influenced by wider social, cultural and political factors;Understand how system complexity impacts upon clinical care;Assess and evaluate strategies for effective governance of quality and patient safety at a local (workplace), organisation and system level;Understand the role of regulatory and professional bodies along with public and patient groups in improvement strategies;Evaluate how health care systems and organisations ‘learn’, along with how the health system recognises and responds to organisational underperformance or failure;Critique the concepts of organisational and professional culture in relation to safety and improvement.Learning Outcomes
Critically analyse how organisations assess and manage risk and deal with organisational failures
Assess the strategies used for effective governance of quality and patient safety and appraise their implementation in various settings
Discuss the impact that engaging patients can have on improvement strategies and assess the approaches used to engage patients in these efforts
Explore the role of regulators, commissioners and other professional bodies in monitoring and guiding system change.
Assess the characteristics of high performing healthcare systems and judge the effectiveness of current systems in adopting and implementing these strategies
Understand the role and effectiveness of safety cases in guiding system changes.