Surgical Safety - Awareness Course

Description

Worldwide, 45% of medical errors occur in the operating theatre and nearly half of these are preventable. Faced with evidence of avoidable harm, attitudes and practices need to change to promote safer healthcare. Five Steps to safer surgery involves briefing, sign-in, timeout, sign-out and debriefing, and is now advocated by the leading healthcare facilities for all patients undergoing surgical procedures. This course teaches the best practices to be followed to ensure surgical safety.

Who Should Attend?

• Any one working in healthcare facilities
• Doctors and nurses
• Quality managers and technical managers in healthcare facilities
• Quality & regulatory professionals
• Complaint handling personnel in healthcare facilities

Key Benefits

• Learn about the common surgical mistakes and its impact
• Familiarize with WHO surgical safety checklist and its use
• Understand five steps to safer surgery – briefing, sign-in, timeout, sign-out and debriefing
• Understand regulatory requirements while planning surgery
• Learn to develop effective Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for ensuring surgical safety
• Understand the communication requirements before, during and after surgery
• Learn to assign roles and responsibilities for ensuring safe surgery
• Learn the documentation and record keeping practices
• Develop employee training plan
• Learn the inspection and verification techniques
• Learn to identify and mitigate risks associated with the surgeries

Learning & Evaluation Method

This is  a live and interactive course.  Once you purchase the course, our team will contact you to plan the training. No matter where you are located, we schedule the classes based on your convenience and time zone. You can plan to attend the training in sessions of 4 or 8 hr duration, based on how much time you can spend in a day.

Buy for group Are you planning to buy this course for a group? We have the best prices for you! Select ‘Buy for Group’ option and add to the cart. You will get a discount of 60 – 75% for a group of up to 10 participants. To make a group purchase, create your group name and add individual emails of up to 10 participants. Each participant will get the access to the course materials, exam and the certificate. We will arrange one live-online session for the entire group.