QIPStart: Introduction to Healthcare Quality Improvement
What you'll learn
- Understand the Key principles and tools involved in Quality Improvement (QI) for Healthcare
- Have an understanding of situations where QI could be used for your situation
- Have guided actions to apply QI learning into your real world setting
- Identify how further learning could be sought for QI topics covered
Requirements
- No Experience needed; Have a problem you would like to fix in mind
Description
For people who are new to Quality Improvement (QI), there are lots of conflicting and competing methods, techniques, tools and opinions on how to improve any given care process or service which can be confusing and time consuming
Our aim is to make the QI journey for beginners as simple as possible; QIPstart offers learning about QI which will guide you through a structured process in a expedited time frame, leading to rapid learning and change.
By the end, you will have taken steps to physically improve your chosen area and developed a solid foundational knowledge from which you can build on; having robust evidence of your QI programme which you can use as evidence for your portfolio, support with business cases or just to facilitate personal development.
Through taking this course you will learn:
· What Quality Improvement is and how it could be applied to the real world
· A framework and series tools that can be taken and utilised for your Improvement Project
· The initial knowledge required to begin your QI journey
Key topics include:
· What Quality Improvement is
· Step-wise approach to completing QI
· Sphere of control and understanding your stakeholders
· Process Mapping
· Fishbone Diagram
· Root cause analysis (5 Whys)
· Model for Improvement
· Developing an Aim Statement
· Picking appropriate measures
· Driver Diagram
· Measuring performance with Run Charts
· Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA)
· Sustaining your improvements
Who this course is for:
- Focussed on Health care professionals early on in their QI Journey
Instructors
- 4.7 Instructor Rating
- 28 Reviews
- 85 Students
- 1 Course
Tom has worked across the healthcare landscape for almost a decade including supporting Small-Medium enterprise to development innovation for the NHS, teaching Quality improvement methods to clinicians and driving Improvement through a hands on approach within providers across dozens of organisations. He has a MSc in Quality and Patient Safety Improvement, has published in academic journals and has presented at multiple national and international conferences on applying and upskilling healthcare staff with Quality improvement methods.
Tom now supports training and education of healthcare staff through Quality Improvement Partners who's mission is to "To instill a philosophy of continuous improvement for health and social care professionals"
- 4.7 Instructor Rating
- 28 Reviews
- 85 Students
- 1 Course
Associate Medical Director for Quality and Safety and a Respiratory Specialist Consultant at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust.
I have an MSc in Medical education with research focus on understanding bhow staff can practice quality improvement in healthcare environments.
I am an Associate Editor for BMJ Open Quality. QSIR Associate QI Kata Coach.
Member of RCPQI supporting the Royal College in the Medical Care Driving Change Programme. I am also a Q Community member.
I have mentored many trainee QI programmes and delivered virtual and face to face educational QI workshops locally and nationally.