Quality and Safety in Healthcare

This subject enables students to examine factors influencing safety and quality of the healthcare system and the role of clinical governance frameworks. Students will examine trends in critical incidents in healthcare that result in adverse outcomes for patients and will learn how to assess clinical risk. The subject will also introduce students to quality improvement strategies that seek to improve the safety and quality of patient care and to consider how nurses lead these efforts at a clinical and organisational level. Students will consider how to evaluate care and monitor improvement in the quality and safety of care in their health services.