Training Catalog
AHRQ Training Catalog is a database of patient safety training programs updated monthly. Because new programs are continually being developed, old ones retired, and others revised and improved, interested readers should check the relevant websites for up-to-date information.
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- International 87
- National 73
- School-specific 22
- State-based 2
Target Audience
- Allied Health Professionals 28
- Allied Health Services 1
- Clinical Laboratory Managers and Supervisors 1
- Clinical Technologists 10
- Clinicians 4
- Educators 16
- Engineers 10
- Facility and Group Administrators 56
- General Public 1
- Health Care Executives and Administrators 113
- Health Care Providers 117
- Health Professional Students 1
- Healthcare Students 21
- Information Professionals 3
- Non-Health Care Professionals 32
- Nurse Managers 49
- Nurses 72
- Nursing 1
- Organizational Behaviorists 1
- Patients 9
- Pharmacists 37
- Physicians 84
- Policy Makers 4
- Public Health Professionals 1
- Quality and Safety Professionals 59
- Researchers 1
- Risk Managers 42
- Safety Scientists 15
- Pharmacy Technicians 7
- Residents 1
- Hospital Pharmacists 1
- Health Care Professionals 1
Content Area
- Administration Errors 8
- Adverse Drug Events 1
- Audit and Feedback 3
- Automatic drug dispensers 1
- Bar Coding and Radiofrequency ID Tagging 4
- Benchmarking 5
- Change Management 20
- Checklists 6
- Clinical Information Systems 5
- Clinical Pharmacist Involvement 8
- Communication between Providers 11
- Communication Improvement 71
- Computer-Assisted Therapy 1
- Computerized Decision Support 2
- Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE) 2
- Conferences and Workshops 1
- Continuing Education 41
- Continuous Quality Improvement 48
- Critical Pathways 2
- Culture of Safety 70
- Delirium 1
- Devicerelated Complications 3
- Diagnostic Errors 9
- Diagnostic Test Interpretation Error 1
- Discontinuities, Gaps, and HandOff Problems 4
- Dispensing Errors 1
- Driving Change 11
- Education and Training 83
- Educational Outreach/Academic Detailing 1
- Electronic Health Records 3
- Error Analysis 56
- Error Reporting 27
- Error Reporting and Analysis 77
- Failure Mode Effects Analysis 14
- Fatigue and Sleep Deprivation 6
- Financial 1
- Hazards 1
- Health Literacy Improvement 10
- Human Factors Engineering 46
- Identification Errors 7
- Incentives 6
- Indwelling Tubes and Catheters 1
- Informatics 1
- Informed Consent 2
- Infusion Pumps 1
- Institutional Patient Safety Plan 22
- Interventional Radiology 2
- Intraoperative Complications 5
- Just Culture 6
- Laboratory Result Tracking Improvement 1
- Latent Errors 8
- Leadership 10
- Leadership Skills 27
- Learning Organization 9
- Legal and Policy Approaches 37
- Logistical Approaches 40
- Measurement Approaches 1
- Medical Complications 5
- Medication Errors/Preventable Adverse Drug Events 29
- Medication Safety 42
- Missed or Critical Lab Results 1
- Monitoring Errors and Failures 8
- Narrative/Storytelling 7
- Never Events 1
- Noncognitive Errors ("Slips & Lapses") 2
- Nonsurgical Procedural Complications 2
- Nosocomial Infections 3
- Online Education 26
- Opiates/Narcotics 1
- Patient and Family Advisory Councils 3
- Patient Centered Care 2
- Patient Complaints 1
- Patient Disclosure 2
- Patient Education 5
- Patient Falls 3
- Patient Safety Fundamentals 28
- Patient Safety Indicators 1
- Patient Self Management 1
- Practice Guidelines 4
- Pressure Ulcers 2
- Provider-Patient Communication 26
- Psychological and Social Complications 9
- Public Reporting 6
- Quality Improvement Strategies 101
- Read Back Protocols 2
- Regulation 8
- Residents and Fellows 2
- Restraints 1
- Risk Analysis 41
- Risk Management 2
- Role of the Media 1
- Root Cause Analysis 31
- SBAR 10
- Side Effects/Adverse Drug Reactions 4
- Simulators 1
- Six Sigma 8
- Specialization of Care 5
- Specific Patient Care Issue 7
- Specific to High-Risk Drugs 1
- Strategic Planning 1
- Structured Handoffs 12
- Surgical Complications 9
- Systems Approach 1
- Teamwork 53
- Teamwork Training 30
- Technologic Approaches 36
- Triage Questions 1
- Unit Based Safety Teams 1
- Wrong Patient 2
- Wrong-Site Surgery 3
- Patient-centered Care 5
- Patient Safety Essentials 1
- External Influences on Patient Safety 1
- Risk Identification and Analysis 1
- Data Management System Design 1
- Mitigating Risk Through Systems Thinking and Design and Human Factors Analysis 1
- Cognitive Errors 1
- Outpatient Surgery 1
- Process Improvement 2
- Medical Device Design 1
- Residential Facilities 1
- Human Error 1
- Simulation 1
- Red Rules 1
- Error Types 1
- Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) 1
- Safety Culture 1
- Active Errors 1
- Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events 3
- Quality Improvement 8
- Device Related Complications 1
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AACN Clinical Scene Investigator (CSI) Academy
- Origin/Sponsor: American Association of Critical-Care Nurses; AACN
- Mode of Delivery:Self-directed Study
- Content Area(s):Quality Improvement Strategies; Error Analysis
- Target Audience:Nurses, Nurse Managers
- Certification:NA
- Reach:National
Addressing a Trifecta of Overlooked IV Medication Risks
- Origin/Sponsor: Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP)
- Mode of Delivery:Web-based training; Self-directed study
- Content Area(s):Administration Errors; Medication Safety
- Target Audience:Pharmacists; Nurses
- Certification:No
- Reach:International
Advanced Certificate in Health Quality and Patient Safety
- Origin/Sponsor: Stony Brook Medicine
- Mode of Delivery:Classroom Instruction
- Content Area(s):Quality Improvement; Culture of Safety; Error Reporting and Analysis, Patient Safety Fundamentals; Legal and Policy Approaches; Teamwork; Communications Improvement
- Target Audience:Health Care Executives and Administrators, Health Care Providers
- Certification:No
- Reach:School-specfic
Advancing Medication Safety for Adult Patients Receiving IV Push Therapy
- Origin/Sponsor: Institute for Safe Medication Practices; ISMP
- Mode of Delivery:Web-based Training, Self-directed Study
- Content Area(s):Administration Errors; Active Errors
- Target Audience:Pharmacists
- Certification:No
- Reach:International
Advancing Safety for Patients In Residency Education
- Origin/Sponsor: Canadian Patient Safety Institute; CPSI
- Mode of Delivery:Classroom Instruction
- Content Area(s):Education and Training; Residents and Fellows; Change Management
- Target Audience:Educators, Residents, Physicians
- Certification:No
- Reach:National
AHRQ TeamSTEPPS Advanced Course
- Origin/Sponsor: American Society for Healthcare Risk Management; ASHRM
- Mode of Delivery:Web-based training, Classroom instruction
- Content Area(s):Change Management; Communication Improvement; Continuous Quality Improvement; Culture of Safety; Education and Training; Institutional Patient Safety Plan; Leadership; Logistical Approaches; Quality Improvement Strategies; SBAR; Structured Handoffs; Teamwork; Teamwork Training
- Target Audience:Facility and Group Administrators, Health Care Executives and Administrators, Health Care Providers, Nurse Managers, Nurses, Physicians, Quality and Safety Professionals, Risk Managers
- Certification:NA
- Reach:National
Ambulatory Infection Prevention Course
- Origin/Sponsor: Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN)
- Mode of Delivery:Web-based Training; Self-directed study
- Content Area(s):Nosocomial Infections; Surgical Complications; Outpatient Surgery
- Target Audience:Nursing; Facility and Group Administrators; Quality and Safety Professionals
- Certification:Yes
- Reach:International
Ambulatory Stand Up for Patient Safety Program
- Origin/Sponsor: National Patient Safety Foundation
- Mode of Delivery:Classroom Instruction; Self-directed Study
- Content Area(s):Communication between Providers; Communication Improvement; Culture of Safety; Education and Training; Health Literacy Improvement; Human Factors Engineering; Institutional Patient Safety Plan; Learning Organization; Logistical Approaches; Provider-Patient Communication; Read Back Protocols
- Target Audience:Facility and Group Administrators; Health Care Executives and Administrators; Health Care Providers; Nurse Managers; Nurses; Physicians; Quality and Safety Professionals; Risk Managers
- Certification:No
- Reach:National
Anatomy of an Error
- Origin/Sponsor: Duke University Medical Center; Duke University Medical Center Department of Community and Family Medicine
- Mode of Delivery:Self-directed Study; Web-based training
- Content Area(s):Communication between Providers; Communication Improvement; Education and Training; Error Analysis; Error Reporting; Error Reporting and Analysis; Human Factors Engineering; Online Education; Teamwork
- Target Audience:Facility and Group Administrators; Health Care Executives and Administrators; Health Care Providers; Nurse Managers; Nurses; Physicians; Quality and Safety Professionals; Risk Managers
- Certification:No
- Reach:International
Annual Health Care Quality & Patient Safety Conference (HCQ&PS)
- Origin/Sponsor: American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians(ABQAURP)
- Mode of Delivery:Classroom Instruction
- Content Area(s):Quality Improvement Strategies; Leadership Skills; Error Reporting; Pscyhological and Social Complications
- Target Audience:Health Care Professionals; Health Care Executives and Administrators
- Certification:No
- Reach:National
Annual IHI National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care
- Origin/Sponsor: Institute for Healthcare Improvement
- Mode of Delivery:Annual Conference; Classroom Instruction
- Content Area(s):Patient Safety Fundamentals; Quality Improvement Strategies
- Target Audience:Health Care Executives and Administrators; Health Care Providers; Patients
- Certification:No
- Reach:International
ASHRM Annual Conference
- Origin/Sponsor: American Society for Healthcare Risk Management
- Mode of Delivery:Annual Conference; Classroom instruction
- Content Area(s):Risk Management; Patient Safety Fundamentals; Quality Improvement Strategies
- Target Audience:Health Care Executives and Administrators; Health Care Providers; Patients
- Certification:No
- Reach:International
Canadian Patient Safety Officer Course
- Origin/Sponsor: Canadian Patient Safety Institute; CPSI; Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
- Mode of Delivery:Classroom Instruction, Web-based Training, Self-Directed Study
- Content Area(s):Patient Safety Fundamentals; Culture of Safety; Human Factors Engineering; Leadership Skills; Teamwork; Communication Improvement; Latent Errors; Quality Improvement Strategies
- Target Audience:Allied Health Professionals, Nurses, Physicians, Health Care Executives and Administrators, Educators
- Certification:Yes
- Reach:National
Certificate in Patient and Product Safety
- Origin/Sponsor: USC School of Pharmacy; University of Southern California(USC)
- Mode of Delivery:Self-Directed Study; Web-based Training
- Content Area(s):Medical Device Design; Device Related Complications; Patient Safety Fundamentals; Audit and Feedback; Error Analysis
- Target Audience:Risk Managers; Quality and Safety Professionals; Pharmacists
- Certification:Yes
- Reach:School-specfic
Certificate in Patient Safety & Quality Management Course
- Origin/Sponsor: Health Quality Council of Alberta (HQCA); Ward of the 21st Century (W21C); University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine
- Mode of Delivery:Classroom insruction; Self-directed study
- Content Area(s):Patient Safety Essentials
- Target Audience:Health Care Providers; Health Care Executives and Administrators
- Certification:Yes
- Reach:National
Certificate Program in Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety
- Origin/Sponsor: Feinberg School of Medicine Center for Education in Health Sciences; Northwestern University
- Mode of Delivery:Classroom Instruction; Self-directed Study
- Content Area(s):Communication Improvement; Continuous Quality Improvement; Culture of Safety; Education and Training; Incentives; Legal and Policy Approaches; Public Reporting; Quality Improvement Strategies; Risk Analysis; Teamwork; Teamwork Training; Teamwork Training
- Target Audience:Allied Health Professionals; Clinical Technologists; Facility and Group Administrators; Health Care Executives and Administrators; Health Care Providers
- Certification:Information Not Available
- Reach:School-specific
Certified Professional in Aging Services Risk Management (CPASRM)
- Origin/Sponsor: Center for Aging Services Risk Management; ECRI Institute
- Mode of Delivery:Classroom Instruction; Self-directed Study; Web-based training
- Content Area(s):Culture of Safety; Education and Training; Legal and Policy Approaches; Regulation; Risk Analysis
- Target Audience:Facility and Group Administrators; Health Care Executives and Administrators; Health Care Providers; Quality and Safety Professionals; Risk Managers
- Certification:Yes
- Reach:National
Changing the Paradigm: Improving Patient Safety Through Patient & Family-Centered Care
- Origin/Sponsor: American Society for Healthcare Risk Management (ASHRM)
- Mode of Delivery:Web-based training; Self-directed study
- Content Area(s):Legal and Policy Approaches; Patient-centered Care; Patient Education; Provider-Patient Communication; Quality Improvement Strategies
- Target Audience:Risk Managers; Nurses
- Certification:No
- Reach:International
Clinical Decision Support and Diagnostic Imaging
- Origin/Sponsor: American Medical Association(AMA)
- Mode of Delivery:Self-directed Study; Web-based Training
- Content Area(s):Computerized Decision Support; Quality improvement strategies; Provider-Patient Communication; Logistical Approaches
- Target Audience:Physicians
- Certification:No
- Reach:International
Clinical Team Training
- Origin/Sponsor: VHA National Center for Patient Safety
- Mode of Delivery:Classroom Instruction; Self-directed Study
- Content Area(s):Communication Improvement; Education and Training; Identification Errors; Intraoperative Complications; Medication Errors/Preventable Adverse Drug Events; Medication Safety ; Surgical Complications; Teamwork; Teamwork Training; Wrong-Site Surgery; Wrong-Site Surgery
- Target Audience:Facility and Group Administrators; Health Care Executives and Administrators; Health Care Providers; Nurse Managers; Nurses; Physicians; Quality and Safety Professionals
- Certification:No
- Reach:National