Your Patient Safety Week 2024 with SafeTeam Academy
This year, Patient Safety Week 2024 will take place from September 16 to 20. Normally held in November, it has been moved up to coincide with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) World Patient Safety Day.
In this article, we have compiled all the resources that can help you organize Safety Week at your institution.
A little background
Patient Safety Week (also known as PSW) is an event focused on action and awareness. Every healthcare facility must organize workshops to raise awareness among both healthcare professionals and patients about the practices essential to quality care.
Focus on diagnosis
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 hindered by systemic issues, such as a lack of communication among healthcare providers and with patients, excessive workloads, or a lack of awareness of one’s limitations. Cognitive challenges, 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, enables teams to reduce medical errors and thereby improve patient safety. Our new white paper focuses on this topic: Our brand-new white paper focuses on establishing a sustainable and robust safety culture. It covers a wide range of topics, from current challenges in the field to the benefits of implementing a safety culture, and more. Practical and accessible tools are also shared. This document was developed in collaboration with Emmanuel Raggi, an independent trainer and consultant in Organizational and Human Factors and Safety Culture, and Guillaume Tirtiaux, an airline pilot, CRM trainer, and author of "Succeeding Better Together." Implementing a Sustainable Safety Culture in Your Organization -> Download
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Lessons Learned: Improving the Reliability of Care and Practices -> Download
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The posters
Each of the four posters highlights a key area that helps teams conduct diagnoses effectively. These key areas are designed to serve as "tools" for medical staff. The posters are intentionally concise to encourage discussion among teams on the topic.
Feel free to print them out and display them in the break room or somewhere your teams can easily see them.
Customization with your logo is available upon request.
The Webinar
Register for our webinar on implementing a safety culture, led by Emmanuel RAGGI, an independent trainer and consultant specializing in organizational and human factors and safety culture, and Guillaume TIRTIAUX, an airline pilot, CRM trainer, and author of "Succeed Better Together."
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