IHI's Patient Safety Essentials Toolkit
IHI's Vice President, Frank Frederico, RPh, gives an overview of IHI's Patient Safety Essentials Toolkit. Throughout this video, he takes a look at what it includes, how it can be used, and how it can help make an organization safer and more reliable.
Source: Institute for Healthcare (IHI), 2019.
https://www.ihi.org/resources/Pages/Tools/Patient-Safety-Essentials-Toolkit.aspx
Patient Safety Essentials Toolkit
This toolkit provided by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement is designed to help organizations develop and deliver safe, reliable care every time for patients. It includes documents to help improve teamwork and communication, tools to help understand the underlying issues that can cause errors, and valuable guidance about how to create and maintain reliable systems. Within the nine tools included in the toolkit, each includes a short description, instructions, an example, and a blank template. (Registration to the IHI website is required to access this resource).
Keeping Granny Safe on July 1: A Consensus on Minimum Geriatrics Competencies for Graduating Medical Students
This set of competencies is designed for graduating medical students, and acts as minimum set of geriatric competency standards for first-year residents. The competencies are based on accepted standards of evidence-based geriatric care and contain the following domains: medication management; self-care capacity; falls, balance and gait disorders; hospital care for elders; cognitive and behavioral disorders; atypical presentation of disease; health care planning and promotion; and palliative care.
Medicine in the 21st Century: Recommended Essential Geriatrics Competencies for Internal Medicine and Family Medicine Residents
This article outlines competencies for internal medicine and family medicine residents that are unique to the care of older adult patients, feasible within the structure of current residency programs, constitute a minimum but uniform expectation for all graduating residents.
Source: Journal of Graduate Medical Education, 2010.
https://meridian.allenpress.com/jgme
Multidisciplinary Competencies in the Care of Older Adults at the Completion of the Entry-level Health Professional Degree
These multidisciplinary competencies are designed for the care of older adults at the completion of entry-level health professional degrees. They focus on the unique characteristics and needs of older adults with an emphasis on ensuring person‐centered and directed care that supports the dignity, autonomy, and rights of each older person.
Position Statement on Interdisciplinary Team Training in Geriatrics: An Essential Component of Quality Health Care for Older Adults
This interdisciplinary team training (IDT) addresses those groups that can influence the development and expansion of academic and continuing education programs, including professional associations, credentialing and licensing bodies, accreditation organizations, and university administrators. This statement also emphasizes the urgent need for interdisciplinary teamwork as an essential educational component for all health professional trainees working with older adults.
Source: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2014.
Free Online Integrated Health Care Training (June 12) and Multicultural Training (June 26)
Greetings,
The UNT ICBH Project is excited to announce our summer 2020 webinars. Participants will learn strategies and find resources that will help them increase their competencies in delivering culturally responsive integrated health care services. There will be 2 separate trainings on different days. Please see the information below.
Integrated Care Training
Date: Friday, June 12, 2020
Time: 9:00 am-12:00 pm
Guidance on returning to classroom/lab during COVID-19
Following are new American Council of Academic Physical Therapy (ACAPT) guidelines for physical therapy education programs during this COVID-19 period and potentially beyond. These guidelines may also be relevant for other health education leaders.
The docs are included at: https://www.acapt.org/news/news-detail/2020/04/29/acapt's-response-to-the-covid-19-new-normal and cover: