Session 1
Overview of Patient Safety
Objectives: Students will gain an understanding of what patient safety entails, types of hazards that exist, and the role of the Occupational Safety and Healthcare Administration (OSHA).
Instructions: Review the weblinks and topics below. In addition, complete Session 1 Readings and Lab (Homework) Assignments.
Review Weblink 1: World Health Organization (WHO) | Patient Safety Key Facts
Topic 1: How WHO defines patient safety
Topic 2: Why patient harm occurs
Topic 3: Examples that illustrate patient safety and burden of harm
Review Weblink 2: Healthcare Overview | Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
Topic 4: How OSHA defines healthcare
Topic 5: Types of hazards that healthcare workers face
Topic 6: Number of healthcare workers who get sick or injured
Topic 7: Workers who are exposed to hazards
Review Weblink 3: About OSHA | Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Topic 8: OSHA’s mission
Topic 9: OSHA organization
Review Weblink 4: AHRQ | 20 Tips to Prevent Medical Errors: Patient Fact Sheet
Session 1 – Readings and Lab (Homework) Assignments
1. Complete Session 1 Lab (Homework) Assignment on Blackboard:
Introductions – Tell us a little bit about yourself
– Do you work in the healthcare field? If so, do you have any current safety certifications?
– Why are you taking this course?
– What do you hope to learn?
– What are your future career plans?
2. Create an account on CDC TRAIN: CDC | TRAIN Website
– You will need a CDC TRAIN account to complete future trainings and obtain certifications.
Session 2
Culture of Safety
Objectives: Students will learn about the important role that organizations play in creating a culture of safety within their facilities and be introduced to the basics of infection control.
Instructions: Review the weblinks, topics, and video below. Also, complete Session 2 Readings and Lab (Homework) Assignments.
Review Weblink 1: Healthcare | Organizational Safety Culture
Topic 1: How patient and healthcare worker safety are linked
Topic 2: How safety culture can be created
Topic 3: Predictors of safety culture
Review Weblink 2: CDC Project Firstline | Infection Control | Session 1
What Does it Mean to Recognize a Risk? (Slide Set – PPT – 22 Slides)
Topic 4: Types of risks
Topic 5: Risks of germs in healthcare settings
Topic 6: Ways to spread germs
Watch Video: CDC | Project Firstline | Healthcare Risk Recognition in Action
Review Weblink 3: Joint Commission | FAQs
Topic 7: About the Joint Commission
Topic 8: About the Joint Commission accreditation survey
Topic 9: About the Joint Commission standards
Session 2 – Readings and Lab (Homework) Assignments
1. Complete CDC Infection Control Knowledge Check – Go to the weblinks below and complete the interactive activities to check your infection control knowledge and to gain real time feedback.
a. When Healthcare Tasks Takes a Turn!
– Diarrhea Dilemma
– Fidgeting Felix Gets an IV
b. What’s Wrong with this Picture?
– Emergency Room
– Nurses Station
– Outpatient Exam Room
c. Where Germs Live | Interactive Infographic
– Where Germs Live in Healthcare Interactive Infographic
Session 3
Infectious Diseases: Bloodborne Pathogens & Healthcare Associated Infections
Objectives: Students will learn about Healthcare Associated Infections and Bloodborne Pathogens associated with the healthcare field.
Instructions: Review the weblinks, topics, and video below. Complete Session 3 Readings and Lab (Homework) Assignments.
Watch Video: CDC | Project Firstline | How Germs Spread in Healthcare
Review Weblink 2: Healthcare – Infectious Diseases | Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Topic 6: Primary routes of infectious diseases
Topic 7: CDC guidelines to assess and reduce risk
Topic 8: Specific infectious diseases found in healthcare settings
Session 3 – Readings and Lab (Homework) Assignments
1. Respond to Bloodborne Pathogens Scenario on Blackboard
Session 4
Infectious Diseases and the Healthcare Professional
Objectives: Students will learn about the role that health professionals can play when dealing with infectious diseases.
Instructions: Review the weblink, topics, and videos below. In addition, complete Session 4 Readings and Lab (Homework) Assignments.
Review Weblink 1: CDC Project Firstline | Infection Control | Session 3
Recognizing Risk Using Reservoirs: A Review (Slide Set – PPT – 22 Slides)
Topic 1: Recognizing risks
Topic 2: Germs in healthcare
Topic 3: How germs spread
Topic 4: Staph (Staphylococcus aureus or S. aureus) scenario
Watch Video: CDC | Demonstration of Donning (Putting On) Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
Watch Video: CDC | Demonstration of Doffing (Taking Off) your Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
Session 4 – Readings and Lab (Homework) Assignments
1. Complete two trainings and upload certifications to Blackboard:
– Basic Infection Prevention in the Ambulatory Care Setting: Hand Hygiene (estimated less than 30 minutes)
– Basic Infection Prevention in the Ambulatory Care Setting: Personal Protective Equipment and Safe Surfaces (estimated less than 30 minutes)
Session 5 Exam 1 – Scheduled to be taken during class time
Exam 1 and Vaccine Preventable Diseases
Objectives: Students’ knowledge of key terms and concepts presented during Sessions 1 through 4 will be assessed with Exam 1. In addition, Vaccine Preventable Diseases related to healthcare workers will be covered.
Instructions: Exam 1 will be completed on Blackboard. Also, complete Session 5 Readings and Lab (Homework) Assignments.
Review Weblink: WHO – Vaccines & Immunization: Myths & Misconceptions
Watch Video: CDC Understanding the ACIP and How Vaccine Recommendations are Made in the U.S
Watch Video: Maternal RSV Vaccine Recommendations
Watch Video: Should All Older Adults Get New RSV Vaccines?
Session 5 – Readings and Lab (Homework) Assignments
1. View and listen to the Session 5 PowerPoint on Vaccine Preventable Diseases on Blackboard.
There is NO written assignment for this session – Students are responsible for reviewing information presented on OpenLab.
