Who Should Attend
Nurse managers, charge nurses, nursing quality officers, senior nurses, nursing educators, and hospital nursing leadership teams.
Learning Objectives
- Identify nursing-related patient safety risks and contributing system factors.
- Select meaningful quality and patient-safety measures.
- Apply a structured improvement cycle to a nursing service problem.
- Lead team communication and develop an implementation and monitoring plan.
Curriculum & Instructional Hours
| Module | Key Topics | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing Leadership & Team Culture | Leadership styles, psychological safety, staffing communication | 7 |
| Patient Safety & Human Factors | Near misses, reporting culture, root cause analysis concepts, safe handoffs | 8 |
| Quality Measurement & Improvement | Indicators, baseline data, run charts, PDSA cycles | 8 |
| Medication & Care Process Safety | High-risk processes, escalation, checklists, evidence-based prevention | 7 |
| Change Management & Engagement | Stakeholders, coaching, implementation barriers, sustainability | 7 |
| Nursing QI Capstone | Problem charter, measures, intervention plan, monitoring presentation | 8 |
Teaching & Assessment
Learning Methods
Instructor-led seminars, anonymized incident reviews, quality-measurement exercises, team simulations, and a group improvement project.
Assessment
Safety and quality case exercises (30%), measurement and process assignments (30%), QI capstone project (40%); proposed weights.
Program Outcomes
- Nursing safety risk assessment and process map
- Draft quality indicator set with baseline measurement plan
- Nursing quality improvement project charter
- Implementation, monitoring, and team communication presentation
Program planning notice: Curriculum, duration, faculty, delivery, visits, and completion arrangements are proposed and subject to final institutional confirmation. No clinical practice privileges or professional license eligibility are guaranteed.