Example Patient Safety Education Scenarios
These publications look at how different NES activities contribute to improving patient safety.
"The Scottish Government has set ambitious Health Service targets including the elimination of avoidable harm to patients. Education has an essential role to play which should not be overlooked just because it is difficult to quantify the impact of staff education on patient outcomes. Patient Safety education scenarios build on the established success of patient stories in using narrative and qualitative data as powerful levers for improvement. The scenarios presented here demonstrate the impact of educational interventions on healthcare staff as they treat their patients."
Professor Philip
Cachia
NES Lead for Patient Safety, Postgraduate Medical
Dean
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The NES Patient Safety Multi-disciplinary Group is
in the process of collecting information from various NES
directorates about a range of educational activities and
infrastructures which are helping to promote a culture of patient
safety within the health service. These activities
and infrastructures do not necessarily have Patient Safety as their
primary driver, and yet they are contributing to safer care
through, for example, their focus on avoiding harm (e.g.
medicines management, infection control, reducing adverse drug
events, reducing diagnostic errors, etc.). For more details
see the information leaflet
[PDF].
The Example Patient Safety Education Scenarios aim to:
- make links between education and
its impact on the service in terms of safety
- capture the views of the organiser or sponsor of an educational
resource or infrastructure, to make links with the potential impact
on patient safety
- capture the actual impact on safer care (for instance, where
an evaluation has been carried out)
- highlight examples of where healthcare staff consider that a
given educational resource has made their practice safer.
The objective of these scenarios is to demonstrate how
different types of NES workforce development activities (education,
training, or support of educational infrastructure - including
networks, e-learning, courses, fellowships and leadership
programmes) contribute to improving patient safety - and it is also
anticipated that they some of the scenarios will be able to be used
as stand- alone learning resources.
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For further information,
please contact:
- Mudenda
Munkombwe (Research and Information Officer)
- Anna
Girling (Partnership Development Officer)
- Fiona
Gailey (Educational Projects Manager)
