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Overview
Preventable patient harms, including medical errors and healthcare-associated complications, are a global public health threat. Moreover, patients frequently do not receive treatments and interventions known to improve their outcomes. These shortcomings typically result not from individual clinicians’ mistakes, but from systemic problems -- communication breakdowns, poor teamwork, and poorly designed care processes, to name a few.
Successful participants of the Patient Safety Specialization offered by Coursera in partnership with Johns Hopkins University will develop a system’s view of safety and quality challenges and will learn strategies for improving culture, enhancing teamwork, managing change and measuring success. They will also lead all aspects of a patient safety and/or quality improvement project, applying the methods described over the seven courses in the specialization.
Applied Learning Project
Learners will use real-world strategies, tools, and techniques to resolve various patient safety and quality issues based on authentic scenarios that occur in medical and clinical settings. They will also be required to leverage cross-disciplinary concepts to successfully address patient safety concerns.
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Visit university websiteProgramme Structure
Courses included:
- Patient Safety and Quality Improvement: Developing a Systems View (Patient Safety I)
- Setting the Stage for Success: An Eye on Safety Culture and Teamwork (Patient Safety II)
- Planning a Patient Safety or Quality Improvement Project (Patient Safety III)
- Designing for Sustainment: Keeping Improvement Work on Track (Patient Safety IV)
- Implementing a Patient Safety or Quality Improvement Project (Patient Safety V)
- Measuring the Success of a Patient Safety or Quality Improvement Project (Patient Safety VI)
- Taking Safety and Quality Improvement Work to the Next Level (Patient Safety VII)
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Visit university websiteKey information
Duration
- Part-time
- 1 months
- 10 hrs/week
Start dates & application deadlines
You can apply for and start this programme anytime.
Language
English
Delivered
Online
- Self-paced
Disciplines
Public Health Health Sciences View 131 other Short Courses in Public Health in United StatesExplore more key information
Visit university websiteAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
Beginner Level
- Health care professionals interested in acquiring concepts, strategies and skills needed to lead patient safety and quality improvement projects.
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FreeTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 0 USD for the full programme during 1 months.
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Funding
Coursera provides financial aid to learners who cannot afford the fee. Apply for it by clicking on the Financial Aid link beneath the "Enroll" button on the left. You'll be prompted to complete an application and will be notified if you are approved. You'll need to complete this step for each course in the Specialization, including the Capstone Project.
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