Origins of Patient Safety and How Simulation is Used to Make Care Safer

Origins of Patient Safety and How Simulation is Used to Make Care Safer Navigating today’s complex healthcare system requires both knowing when to seek help and how to provide it effectively. Our self-paced course, Origins of Patient Safety and How Simulation is Used to Make Care Safer, gives you basic information when it comes to sepsis, advocacy and the best patient experience. This presentation will help attendees understand the basic components of this important topic. This session will provide concrete information for patient advocates when it comes to knowing about and understanding patient safety in a better way. Key features of the course include: - This presentation will cover: Before the early 1980s, the term "patient safety" was not in the healthcare vocabulary. That began to change when the specialty of anesthesiology began to embrace the need to prevent harm to patients. Those efforts greatly expanded, perhaps independently, to all of healthcare starting in the late 1990s. We’ll review the key events and personalities and describe the current landscape of patient safety generally. - This course does not offer CE credits. Flexible Learning: Access the recorded session for two weeks following purchase, allowing you to engage with the material at your convenience. By the end of this course, you will understand an overview of patient safety today.