Your Patient Safety Week 2024 with SafeTeam Academy
This year, Patient Safety Week 2024 will take place from September 16 to 20. Usually scheduled for November, it has been moved forward to coincide with the WHO (World Health Organization) World Patient Safety Day.
In this article, we have gathered all the resources that can help you organize Safety Week within your institution.
A little background
Patient Safety Week (also called PSW) is an event dedicated to action and awareness. Each healthcare facility must organize workshops to raise awareness among both professionals and users about the practices essential to quality care.
Diagnosis as a focus
The theme of Patient Safety Week 2024 is "Improving diagnosis for patient safety".
An accurate and rapid diagnosis is crucial to ensuring patient safety. However, it is often hampered by systemic problems, such as a lack of communication between caregivers and with patients, excessive workloads, or a lack of awareness of one's limitations. Cognitive difficulties, such as a lack of training, experience, fatigue, or biases, can also negatively impact diagnosis and lead to errors. This year's objectives: Patient Safety Week 2024 aims to promote improved diagnosis. It seeks to reinforce essential safety principles, enhance professionals' knowledge, and significantly improve the quality and safety of care. Healthcare professionals are encouraged to become aware of the risks associated with diagnostic errors, to understand their responsibility in patient safety, and to familiarize themselves with the tools and resources available to support them. Tools at your disposal: Over the years, we have developed various tools to help teams develop their non-technical skills. Mobilizing these skills, also known as soft skills, allows teams to reduce medical errors and thus improve patient safety. Our new white paper focused on this topic: Our brand new white paper focuses on establishing a sustainable and robust safety culture. It covers a multitude of topics ranging from current field challenges and the benefits of implementing a safety culture, etc. Practical and accessible tools are also shared. This document was developed with Emmanuel Raggi, independent trainer and consultant in Organizational and Human Factors and Safety Culture, and Guillaume Tirtiaux, airline pilot, CRM trainer, and author of "Succeeding Better Together". Implementing a Sustainable Safety Culture in Your Organization -> Download
Our other white papers on security tools
Team communication in life-threatening emergencies -> Download
Facilitating a difficult MMR: the keys to success -> Download
Surgical Safety Checklist: A Powerful Innovation -> Download
Briefing and Debriefing: How to Conduct Them?-> Download
Lessons learned: improving the reliability of care and practices -> Download
Cognitive aids in healthcare -> Download
The posters
Each of the 4 posters highlights a working area that allows teams to best conduct diagnoses. These working areas are designed as "allies" or tools for medical staff. The posters are intentionally concise to encourage discussions among teams on the topic.
Feel free to print them and display them in the break room or somewhere your teams can easily access them.
Customization with your logo is available upon request..
The Webinar
Register for our webinar on implementing a safety culture, led by Emmanuel RAGGI, independent trainer and consultant in Organizational and Human Factors and Safety Culture, and Guillaume TIRTIAUX, airline pilot, CRM trainer, and author of "Succeed Better together".
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