Patient Story While working on your course project, you will browse a number of videos by searching on the Internet. For example, you may use the term “patient story safety,” “medical error patient story,” “medical error in emergency department patient story.” You can judge the videos based on what you read in the assigned reading […]

Improving with human factors science With this course coming to a close, we would like to hear from you, through the discussion board, on what plans you may have on applying the knowledge, skills, and perspectives gained in this course.   The discussion question is:   What are your plans to make changes to improve […]

Visual Design Visual design concepts are like a toolbox with tools suitable for different tasks. One may also use these concepts to identify flaws in a work environment, such as when one reviews an incident. There may be a couple of visual design concepts you learned in this module (or outside the module) that you […]

Work System Improvement Project teams working on quality and safety improvement can benefit from awareness of human factors principles and concepts. Short, engaging videos may help team members to think beyond focusing on vigilance and to address system defects that may lead to human errors and patient harms.  In your exploration of videos online for […]

Human Errors It can be overwhelming to learn new concepts and ideas by reading alone. Videos can be great to relate new concepts with everyday examples. The discussion question is:   What makes a good video to illustrate the nature of human errors to an improvement project team?

While working on your course project, you will browse a number of videos by searching on the Internet. For example, you may use the term “patient story safety,” “medical error patient story,” “medical error in emergency department patient story.” You can judge the videos based on what you read in the assigned reading (“Module 1: […]

Why Study Families? Rowe (2018, chapter 3, page 54) states, “If there is one ‘mantra’ about family life in the last half century, it is that the family has undergone tremendous change. “    Family nursing comprises a philosophy and a way of interacting with clients that affects how nurses collect information, intervene with patients, […]

Our performance as a professional is influenced not only by design, but also by our biomedical and physical factors. It is intuitive that we do not perform at the top of our game when we are   I – ill;   M – taking certain medications;   S – stressed;   A – under the […]

Online resources have provided a number of short videos that define human factors science. Here is a short video produced by National Health Services of Scotland that defines human factors in the context of health care improvement.   Expectations. This is an assigned video and you are required to submit your reflections after watching the […]

What is patient safety? Are “accidents” random and unpredictable, and thus there is little that one can do about them?  This brief video from the Leapfrog Group explains the concept of patient safety and describes the main types of preventable patient harms. The Leapfrog Group is a non-profit watchdog organization of health care purchasers (such […]