Catalog Number : agn1582
Title : Learning from International Patient Safety
Speaker : Emerson Smith

Webplay Recording Date : 3-11-2009
Webplay Price : $ 195 for two weeks viewing

Webinar Overview:

The U.S. is clearly one of the leaders and innovators in patient safety, supporting the World Health Organization’s initiatives to have uniform and effective international practices to reduce medical errors and improve patient safety.

The objective is to have standardized practices so that patients from one country can go to a hospital in another country and have a safe, error-free experience. European Union countries, like the states in the U.S., are working to have the highest standard of patient safety.

European and Pacific Rim countries may be going beyond the U.S. standards in transparency and outcomes.

Participants will learn what other countries are doing to improve patient safety and how U.S. hospitals can collaborate with hospitals in other countries to learn from one another.

Target Audience: 

• Management
• Boards of Trustees
• Directors of Patient Safety
• Quality Improvement
• Hospital Marketing

Webinar Objectives:

• The current status of global patient safety
• Strategies to use the experiences of foreign hospitals and collaboration to improve patient safety in your hospital
• How to involve patients and the media in patient safety improvement

Contact Hours: 

This course has been approved for 1.8 Iowa Nursing Contact Hours. There is usually a reciprocal agreement between state associations to allow these to count for each state. If you have any questions, please ask your state association.