Activity ID
1532Expires
June 30, 2026Format Type
InternetCME Credit
18.5Fee
$0-$400CME Provider: Johns Hopkins University
Description of CME Course
The Armstrong Institute’s online Patient Safety Certificate Program delivers core concepts and tools to be an effective patient safety champion in your hospital, clinical department or unit/clinic. The program’s 13 modules, which can be taken anywhere and at any time, delve into core concepts in such areas as:
- Develop patient safety initiatives for real and lasting change
- Create and sustain a patient safety culture that has patient-centered care as its linchpin
- Use a system-based approach to identify and reduce defects in their health care organizations
- Apply evidence-based practices to develop and support effective multidisciplinary teams that work in partnership with patients and their families to improve patient safety outcomes
- Act as change agents in their organizations as they lead efforts to continuously learn from defects and improve patient safety and quality care by developing action plans for patient safety improvement
Patient safety initiatives, both in the United States and overseas, have used this online program to prepare key organizational safety leaders and build their organizations’ internal capacity for improvement.
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Educational Objectives
Develop patient safety initiatives for real and lasting change
Create and sustain a patient safety culture that has patient-centered care as its linchpin
Use a system-based approach to identify and reduce defects in their health care organizations
Apply evidence-based practices to develop and support effective multidisciplinary teams that work in partnership with patients and their families to improve patient safety outcomes
Act as change agents in their organizations as they lead efforts to continuously learn from defects and improve patient safety and quality care by developing action plans for patient safety improvement
Keywords
Patient Safety, Adverse Events, Medical Errors, Science of Safety, Communicating, Project Management, Leading Change
Competencies
Interpersonal & Communication Skills, Medical Knowledge, Patient Care & Procedural Skills, Practice-based Learning & Improvement, Professionalism, Systems-based Practice
CME Credit Type
AMA PRA Category 1 Credit
Practice Setting
Inpatient, Outpatient, Rural, Urban
National Quality Strategies and/or Quadruple Aim Care Processes
Communication Skills, Patient Safety/Medical Errors, Evaluation of Clinical Performance, Quality Improvement, Healthcare Workforce
