CPPS Training

What you'll learn

The importance of patient safety
Knowledge on Culture, Leadership, Patient Safety Risks and Solutions, Performance improvement and Systems Thinking
How to establish core standards and benchmark in patient safety.
The best methods to successfully employ the information and certification at your work-place.

Certified Professional in Patient Safety (CPPS) Review Course

This certification exam is conducted by the Certification Board for Professionals in Patient Safety (CBPPS). It aims to oversee a rigorous and comprehensive credentialing process that attests to patient safety competencies and expertise.

The CPPS examination tests candidates in five patient safety domains

Culture
Leadership
Patient Safety Risks and Solutions
Measuring and Improving Performance
Systems Thinking and Design / Human Factors

The key features of the CPPS Review course

To establish core standards for the field of patient safety, benchmark requirements necessary for certified professionals, and set an expected proficiency level
To provide health professionals a means to demonstrate their proficiency and skill in the discipline of patient safety and create for them a specific aspirational goal
To provide a way for employers to validate a potential candidate’s patient safety knowledge and skill base

Course Objectives

Discuss assessment of patient safety culture and steps to educate and promote safe culture
Describe importance aligning patient safety strategy with Organizational goals and establishing metrics for patient safety responsibilities
Apply mechanism to identify, analyze and manage risk and involve appropriate tools
Identify patient safety data collection methods and statistical and qualitative tools to analyze and interpret the data
Discuss External influences to patient safety and ensure compliance with requirements to appropriate agencies
Acquire knowledge and skills and practice questions to pass the CPPS examination administered by CBPPS

Topics

Culture

Assessment of Patient Safety culture
Raising Awareness
Promoting a Culture of Safety

Leadership

Strategy
Operations
Engagement

Patient Safety Risks & Solutions

Risk Identification & Analysis
Patient Safety Solutions

Measuring & Improving Performance

Measurement
Improvement

Systems Thinking & Design / Human Factors

Systems Thinking
Design / Human Factors