Human Factors in a Healthcare Environment
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- Course level: All Levels
About Course
UEA (University of East Anglia)Description
Discover how understanding human factors can improve patient safety
Human factors is the study of how humans behave and interact with each other and their surroundings. It considers how humans interact in the workplace and how, due to the inevitability of human error, mistakes are likely to occur.
On this course you will look at human factors in a healthcare environment, an area where it is vital to limit mistakes because human error can affect patient safety. You will learn about systems that pre-empt the inevitability of human error and can help improve clinical practice and patient safety as a whole.
Who will you learn with?
Lecturer in Operating Department Practice at the school of Health Sciences, University of East Anglia.
Interests include clinical simulation, human factors and patient safety.
Professor of Public Health & Medical Education, Norwich Medical School;
Lifelong Learner; Supervisor & Mentor; ‘early adopter’ but advocate of pedagogy before technology.
Who developed the course?
The University of East Anglia is an internationally renowned university providing top quality academic, social and cultural facilities to over 15,000 students from over 100 countries around the globe.
What Will I Learn?
- Develop an awareness of human error and how this can affect clinical performance
- Describe the different cognitive categories under the umbrella term of human factors
- Discuss the importance of effective communication within healthcare
- Develop an effective and open safety culture within everyday practice
Topics for this course
Introduction to the course
Introduction to the course and this week’s topics00:03:11
Meet the team
Introduction to human factors
Cognitive Topics
The best of the online courses I’ve done. It taught me a lot about human factors in healthcare and I certainly see my workplace differently now. Definitely worth your time.
My only gripe is that it could have been longer. It was very thorough on communication, for example, but could have included more on other topics such as complacency.
The course is presented as an introduction to this new emerging field by delving into its fundamental concept definitions. The main goal of the course is to mitigate or eliminate errors or violations in work environment during pressure times buy analysing human factors that can lead to errors or violations and propose a plan to prevent them for ocstating Human factor and ergometric curring, may them be in organisation, individual or situational levels..
This free course covers most of the basics to consider when improving safety and teamwork. The session content is well structured and the ability to come back to the course as and when you are able is great. Really enjoyed.
The course is sound but only covers very basic concepts. If it is the first time you have come across human factors then it covers most of the key elements, but if you are already aware of human performance and HF then it is very limited. However, for a free course I suppose that's fair enough.
Material Includes
- Official Certificate
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Target Audience
- This course is for healthcare professionals of all levels, but many of the topics discussed are transferable across other industries.