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March 26, 2014
The IHI Open School is an innovative learning community where you can take free online courses, earn certificates, network with peers and experts, and gain confidence and skills in quality improvement and patient safety to change health care.
Do you need continuing education credits? Would it be a good time to improve your knowledge on medication reconciliation, harm from high-alert medications, and ventilator-associated pneumonia? You can check both items off your list thanks to a new (and free) continuing education opportunity from IHI.
In an effort to increase the spread of our How-to Guides, we are now offering continuing education credits on three of our existing resources. Visit this catalog, download the guide, earn a passing score on the assessment test, and you’ll earn an hour of credit per course. The three guides were initially developed as part of IHI’s 5 Million Lives Campaign. While you’re in the catalog, you can also take advantage of the continuing education offered on the IHI white paper, Global Trigger Tool for Measuring Adverse Events.
Login to IHITV to watch free videos of the keynote presentations from the 15th Annual International Summit on Improving Patient Care in the Office Practice and the Community that took place earlier this month. Keynote speakers include IHI’s Executive Vice President, Derek Feeley; Director of the MacColl Institute for Healthcare Innovation at the Group Health Research Institute, Ed Wagner; and President and CEO of the Rhode Island Quality Institute, Laura Adams.
A debate was sparked earlier this month when results of a Canadian study, which found implementing surgical safety checklists in Ontario did not reduce operative mortality or complications, appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine. What did Dr. Atul Gawande, author of The Checklist Manifesto, whose team helped develop the checklist, think of the study? In a recent blog post, he raised a few counterpoints, including “implementation takes time,” and, “if you don’t use it, it doesn’t work.” Read the study and check out Gawande’s response to form your own opinion.
In a new blog post, Dr. Avi Mehra, one of the leaders of the new IHI Open School Chapter at Brighton & Sussex University in Brighton, United Kingdom, shares the story of the successful Chapter launch at BSUH. To learn how the initial meeting both engaged and educated new members with a little “friendly competition” — which you might want to adapt and bring to your own Chapter — read the blog post here.
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