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Specialties » Obstetric and Neonatal Quality and Safety (ONQS)

Obstetric and Neonatal Quality and Safety » ONQS (Code 28)

Description

Quality and Safety Assessment and Gap Analysis
  • Methods to assess organizational, institutional and environmental culture, standards and clinical guidelines and patient experience
  • National Quality and Safety standards and clinical guidelines
  • Adverse events, disclosure, transparency, patient trust, and mitigation
Integrate Quality and Safety in Practice
  • Quality and Safety aims, tools, checklists, disseminating outcomes, and communication strategies
  • Team function, training and simulation, leadership, empowerment and learning principles
  • Training exercises, learning principles, mock codes and simulation
  • Determine and advocate for ongoing resources, risk assessment
Develop and Implement Quality and Safety into Practice
  • Selecting and monitoring key quality metrics
  • Identify population, measures and data collection
  • Integration into workflow, error prevention strategies
Evaluation and Measures of Effectiveness
  • Evaluation Tools
  • Evaluate the balance between quality, outcomes and cost
  • Strategies for sustainment and positive change
Professional and Ethical Issues
  • Professionalism and ethical principles

Keywords

Accountable human error (at risk, reckless, intentional harm)
Adverse events and event reporting
Appraise and prioritize literature relevant to project
Assess and improve organizational culture
Assessing patient/family perspective
Assessment strategies
Awareness of legal/statutory and national quality and safety standards and clinical practice guidelines in obstetrical and neonatal care
Balancing measures
Benchmarking
Blameless human error (inadvertent)
Burn out and fatigue
Care transitions
Clinical practice guidelines in obstetrical and neonatal care
Collaborations and effective communication strategies
Common methods for Q&S improvement initiatives
Data collection strategies (Process tools, Huddle tools, Trigger tools & Chart review)
Data definitions, collection and quality assurance
Data on key quality indicators (i.e., benchmarking/accountability)
Data standardization and retrieval
Debriefing
Develop goal statements
Difference between quality improvement projects and research
Different types of error
Dimensions of quality (Donabedian)
Domains of quality
Effective learning/teaching principles
Elements of disclosure
Errors and Risk reduction strategies (i.e., Bundles, Checklists, Flow sheets, Barcodes)
Ethical principles (Fairness, truthfulness, justice, beneficence, nonmaleficence, autonomy)
Evaluation of outcomes and performance improvement
Gap analysis
General Q&S principles and terminology
Handoffs
Healthcare quality improvement goals
Human factors that impact the work environment
Human psychology and cognition
I-PASS
Identification of waste
Implement and evaluate data collection strategies
Improvement process
Improvement tracking
Incident/safety reports
Institutional processes and priorities
Interplay between costs, quality and value
Leadership skills
Legal/statutory and national quality and safety standards in obstetrical and neonatal care
Measures and metrics
Mentoring
Methodologies of data display
Methods for determining human resource needs
Methods for determining human resource needs
Methods for educating and disseminating quality and safety data to various stakeholders
Methods of event reporting
Metrics
Models for improvement (i.e., PDSA/PDCA, Improve, Six sigma, Lean)
National Quality and Safety standards and clinical guidelines
Opportunities for improvement
Organizational culture (Culture & Just culture)
Outcomes and performance improvement (i.e., Run charts, Control charts)
Participation and shared decision making
Principles and concepts of teams/Team development and sustainability
Principles of simulation (Unit drills, Simulated care processes)
Prioritize opportunities for improvement
Project team formation and dynamics
Psychological harm experience by the patient and second victims
QNS data to various stakeholders (i.e., Annual reports, publication, public reporting)
Quality and safety principles and terminology
Quality assurance versus quality improvement
Quality versus safety
Recognition of threats to implementation and sustainability
Relative importance to different stakeholders
Relevant aspects of structural design standards
Return on investment
Risk adjustment
Role of technology in quality improvements
Safety climate
SBAR
Share data on key quality indicators with colleagues/organizations
Standardization of EMR
Standardized communication
Steps in project sustainability
Steps in project sustainability (i.e., Communication, Reporting, Ongoing ownership)
System error
System goals
Systems thinking
Team development
Technology in quality improvements
Threats to implementation and sustainability (i.e., Competing priorities, Project fatigue, Knowledge degradation)
Tracking of improvements
Types of error
Types of metrics
Understanding and mitigating psychological harm experience by the patient and second victims
Use and principles of simulation