Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

1. Describe how to apply simulation to system-level patient safety and quality improvement efforts, to solve your organization’s operational and clinical issues;
2. Plan and implement simulation activities to enhance a patient safety or quality improvement initiative;
3. Facilitate and debrief a system-focussed simulation.

Course modules include content on:

• Quality improvement and patient safety science
• Complex adaptive healthcare systems
• Successful examples of systems integration work across Canada, including in-situ simulation
• Integrating simulation for various PS/QI purposes, such as policy & procedure development/testing/implementation, latent safety threat detection, clinical space assessment and design, safety culture improvement, etc.
• Quality improvement and the HSSI roadmap
• Systems focused scenario co-design, pre-briefing, facilitation and debriefing
• Measurement and evaluation
• Human factors considerations
• Analysis of systems-based findings and operationalizing to further action
• Setting up for successful organizational learning

This course uses a virtual learning approach. Over the course of 6 weeks, there are a variety of asynchronous and synchronous activities. Asynchronous elements include video lectures, readings, assignments and online discussions. There are weekly live webinars so participants can connect with expert facilitators and peers.

Schedule

The course consists of 5 live webinars scheduled over a 6-week period, with additional activities between the webinars. All live webinar sessions are 90 minutes.

• Wednesday April 24 – course access available
• Wednesday May 1 – Webinar 1 @ 6pm-7:30pm EST | 3pm-4:30pm PST | 4pm-5:30pm MST
• Wednesday May 8 – Webinar 2 @ 6pm-7:30pm EST | 3pm-4:30pm PST | 4pm-5:30pm MST
• Wednesday May 15 – Webinar 3 @ 6pm-7:30pm EST | 3pm-4:30pm PST | 4pm-5:30pm MST
• Wednesday May 29 – Webinar 4 @ 6pm-7:30pm EST | 3pm-4:30pm PST | 4pm-5:30pm MST
• Wednesday June 5 – Webinar 5 @ 6pm-7:30pm EST | 3pm-4:30pm PST | 4pm-5:30pm MST

If you’d like to have a targeted course for your organization, reach out to HSSI for more information.

Course facilitators are experts in system-level applications of simulation and integration into safety/quality improvement activities. They are drawn from Simulation Canada faculty and the HSSI team.

CDN $1400 + applicable taxes. Save when you join us as an organization, individual, or industry! Learn more on Join Simulation Canada.

Course fee includes: tuition, access to course website, educational materials, toolkit

Course fee excludes: technology to access online learning

Payment Options: Cheque, Visa, MasterCard, American Express

Refund policy: Please note that refunds may be requested up to 14 days prior to this course start. Refunds are not available beyond this. Reach out to [email protected] for any refund request. (This overrides Eventbrite’s 7 day refund policy).

Healthcare practitioners, simulation educators and administrators, quality and patient safety leaders, and hospital administrators. Participants should have experience with either simulation in an educational context or experience with patient safety or quality improvement in healthcare.