Cooperative Program

Leadership in Patient Safety and Quality

Leadership in Patient Safety and QualityJoin leading experts from Johns Hopkins University and the Medical University of Vienna for the Leadership in Patient Safety Program.

www.meduniwien.ac.at/patient-safety

For more information and registration: www.meduniwien.ac.at/patient-safety

Registration possible until July 28, 2014

September 1st – 5th 2014

Vienna, Austria

Who will benefit from this program?

This program is open to healthcare providers and administrators in Europe, including:• Current or aspiring healthcare administrators

and leaders• Physician leaders, physician executives, and

physicians interested in safety /quality • Nurse leaders, nurse managers, and nurses

interested in safety/quality • Directors of support departments such as

Legal, Finance, Information Technology, Human Resource

• Pharmacists, pharmacy officers, medication safety officers

• Hospital epidemiologists

Program Coordination

Markus Müller, Vice Rector for Research, Medical University of Vienna

Ralph Kray, Program Coordinator, Johns Hopkins University

Norbert Pateisky, Course Instructor, Medical University of Vienna

Norbert Pa

Fotocredits: fotolia.com(3), Johns Hopkins University, Niki Lauda;

ProgramResidency 1 Leading for Patient Safety: Principles and PracticeOrganized by Johns Hopkins Carey Business School and Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute

• Day One (Lori Paine, Stephanie Peditto, Phil Phan) Leading Quality and Patient Safety

• Day Two (Brian Gunia, Lori Paine, Phil Phan) Culture of Safety

• Day Three (Lori Paine, Stephanie Peditto) Organizational Systems and Structures

Residency 2

Implementation in Clinical Practice: Challenges and Solutions Organized by Medical University of Vienna

• Day Four (Hans Härting, Norbert Pateisky) The Aviation Experience in Clinical Routine

• Day Five (Norbert Pateisky, Jens Schwindt, Andreas Valentin) Safety Essentials in Critical Areas: Intensive Care Units, Obstetrics and Neonatology

Cooperative Program Leadership in Patient Safety and Quality

Patient Safety”, one of the current and future megatrends in clinical medicine

Professional application of “patient safety science” will improve the outcome in clinical medicine more than any other scientific field known today. While there is a lot of knowledge and experience published in medical top journals today, the rate of European hospitals using “best practice” tools and strategies is quite low, due to limited knowledge and missing skills.

For the first time, Johns Hopkins University and Medical University of Vienna offer a course that deals with the various issues of leadership in patient safety.

What experts say about Patient Safety

„Few areas of healthcare are more exciting today

than the work of improving patient safety and quality.

I invite you to come together for a common and noble

purpose: to overcome the complex challenges that

allow patient harm to persist.“

Peter Pronovost, Johns Hopkins University

„Safety is essential in medicine, just as it is in

aviation and in sport. First you have to understand

what constitutes good safety practice, then put the

necessary training in place.“

Niki Lauda, Aviation- and Formula 1-Expert

Benefits of the Patient Safety Leadership Program

• Expert faculty from the Johns Hopkins Univer-sityand Johns Hopkins Health System and the Medical University of Vienna. State-of-the-art approaches to patient safety.

• Explore ways of building a culture of patient safety and innovative ways to create highly reliable systems in your organization.

• Small scale and interactive setting• Opportunity to explore and analyze the issues

related to patient safety from both clinical and business perspectives.

• Innovative teaching approach: participants learn how to generate, co-create and to experiment with the ideas taken from the actual business and clinical settings.

• Knowledge that can be immediately applied in the participants’ work environment.

Program Objectives

• Develop the practices and behaviors of leaders to support a culture of patient safety and design of safe systems.

• Describe how organizations can proactively iden-tify and mitigate harm with a variety of proactive risk assessment tools.

• Identify the communication, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills needed at all levels in a highly reliable organization focused on patient safety.

• Understand methods to build and support effec-tive patient safety initiatives at the organizational, departmental, unit, and team levels.

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