Patient safety and human factors: online learning
Making sense of patient safety
The RCN has made available online learning about patient safety called: Making sense of patient safety. This resource has been developed to help you to understand the role you and your colleagues in the nursing team can play in protecting patients from harm and avoiding preventable incidents or accidents.
The online learning:
- presents two scenarios that are based on real-life incidents which illustrate the wider context through which patient safety in health care settings can be jeopardised
- suggests means by which individual nurses and health care workers can improve the safety and quality of the care they provide
- provides a range of commonly used, simple tools that will help to promote awareness of a safety culture within your team and support you to protect your patients even better.
Access the first scenario now and start learning about promoting patient safety in health care settings. Go to Making sense of patient safety.
Other RCN online learning
Other online continuing professional development topics are available at CPD online learning.
The topics include NICE care: Venous thromboembolism prophylaxis (VTE). This resource has been developed to support health care assistants, students and registered nurses to implement the NICE guideline 'Venous thromboembolism: reducing the risk'. It focuses primarily on understanding and preventing VTE, identifying patients at risk and includes an in depth look at VTE risk assessments.
To view the full range of learning areas available to RCN members see Learning Zone [you will need your RCN membership number to access the full content].