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Create a better patient safety training plan

Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, April 12, 2007

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When designing training plans, remember that information should be presented in at least three ways to reach everyone and make it stick.

First, consider all possibilities. Then create your own patient safety plan with the following suggestions and examples, which can be tailored to suit your organization's culture and your audience:

1. Review the action plan and identify compliance issues that will require some level of education. List target groups for each topic. This will give you an idea of the extent of your challenge.
2. Ask organizational development/senior management staff or other staff to list the educational approaches that have been most successful in your organization. This will be especially helpful if you are new to the organization or to your position.
3. Ask survey managers and staff what will help them learn.
4. Include all departments-including all off-site services-in training program planning and implementation. This will be a challenge in complex organizations, but it's important to remember that off-site services must be as prepared as the services on campus.

To get more information, go to Briefings on Patient Safety (BOPS). For the cost of just three stories, you can get the entire April issue of BOPS. Click here to choose between the PDF and HTML versions for just $30. Subscribers to the online version of BOPS have free access to this article. Subscribers to the print newsletter can find this article in their April issue.

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