2021 Curriculum learning syllabus: stage 3
Safety and Quality Improvement
Stage learning outcomes
- Supervises a local quality improvement project and participates in regional or national quality improvement projects
- Uses a systems approach to creating, maintaining and improving safety
Key capabilities
A |
Identifies and supervises a quality improvement project, prioritising and evaluating measures and outcomes important to patients in a special interest area of anaesthetic practice |
B |
Explains how complexity theory applies to healthcare |
C |
Identifies levers and drivers and the principles of psychology underpinning change management that can be used to develop a shared purpose |
D |
Identifies and engages with stakeholders affected by potential change |
E |
Interprets the interplay between psychology, system, process and technical knowledge needed to implement change |
F |
Promotes a collaborative approach to delivering quality improvement utilising the principles of patient co-design when possible |
G |
Describes how to sustain improvement |
H |
Effectively evaluates the impact of a quality improvement intervention |
I |
Applies safety science principles and practice at individual, team, organisational and system levels |
J |
Uses measures of process reliability to monitor and improve safety |
K |
Predicts how system failures will create risks to patients |
L |
Uses a systems-based approach to proactively assess risk and in the investigation of safety incidents |
M |
Acts on national regulation and findings of national case studies in patient safety |
N |
Explains how organisational culture can influence failure or improvement in clinical practice |
O |
Analyses the strengths and weaknesses of safety interventions |
P |
Quantifies the effect of contextual factors on safety |
Q |
Addresses the limitations of the concept of ‘human error’ in incident investigations and responses |
R |
Mitigates against fixation error, unconscious and cognitive biases |
Examples of evidence
Experience & logbook:
- leadership of QI activities within the Anaesthetic Department and experience of regional or national QI and risk assessment.
Supervised Learning Events (SLEs) can be used to demonstrate:
- leadership of local QI project and participation in regional or national QI projects (A-QIPAT)
- presentation of QI project results
- implementation of QI project outcomes
- promotion of safety in theatre lists.
Personal Activities and Personal Reflections may include:
- courses and e-Learning: quality improvement methodology, understanding risk, understanding professional interactions, change management, national patient safety legislation, human factors training, complexity theory, safety science
- involvement with patient safety investigation such as root cause analysis
- undertake mortality reviews
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attendance and presentation at clinical governance meetings.
Cross links with other domains and capabilities
- Professional Behaviours and Communication
- Management and Professional and Regulatory Requirements
- Team Working
- all specialty specific domains.