On-campus Masters 1 year - 18 months in Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality

The Certificate of Graduate Studies (C.G.S.) in health-care quality and patient safety was designed to meet a key need to expand nurses' understanding of quality and safety. Admission requirements are the same as for the M.S.N. in nursing program, with the exception that the Miller Analogies Test or the GRE are not required. Students who successfully complete the certificate program may transfer to the population/public health nursing M.S.N. option. Applications for the C.G.S. in health-care quality and patient safety is ongoing and may be submitted at any time.

The mission of the Perelman School of Medicine’s Master’s degree in Healthcare Quality and Safety (MHQS) is to train the next generation of healthcare leaders and practitioners in the science of healthcare quality and patient safety.

The goal of the MHQS is to provide in-depth didactic instruction and hands-on experience to current healthcare professionals who aim to improve the quality and safety of healthcare, locally, regionally or nationally. This program will prepare students to pursue careers in healthcare administration and leadership that may be broad (e.g. director of quality and safety for a healthcare system or hospital) or more focused (e.g. positions that oversee population health, health equity, patient safety, value-based care for a healthcare system, department, or organization). Some graduates will combine their clinical and academic careers with a focus on healthcare quality and safety leadership, others will go on to pure leadership positions.

Master of Science in Healthcare Quality and Safety.

The curriculum of the program is tailored to help clinicians and clinical administrators improve patient safety and health care quality in an increasingly complex and evolving health care environment.

This applied program consists of twelve courses, longitudinal seminars and a capstone project. The core courses include:.

Applied Quality and Safety in Health Care Settings.

Special and Emerging Topics in Safety and Quality.

The traditional program pathway is designed for clinicians and clinical administrators who aspire to leadership positions in health care quality improvement, risk management and patient safety. Across 14 different courses, the program offers foundational training in safety and quality science, followed by opportunities to learn from expert leaders on these principles in the real world. Students are exposed to unique perspectives on malpractice and the patient experience. Capstones offer opportunities to explore how quality and safety affect the frontline and engage all stakeholders in change.

Articulate best navigate healthcare systems and answer operational quality improvement questions. This will be achieved by immersing. students in a quality improvement approach to recognize risk, understand the problem, design and implement solutions, and share results. Students will also practice turning clinical problems into active quality projects.

Develop the infrastructure and processes to support a culture of safety in health care organizations. This will be achieved by training students in patient safety science and analytic skills to examine patient and provider harm. Organizational strategies to measure and improve the culture of safety will be explored and shared by experts.

Develop skills to lead and facilitate change in healthcare. This will be achieved through an operational understanding of how systems can be combined with knowledge of the frontline to have a measurable impact on outcomes. Students will be able to apply these skills directly in their capstone projects.

This new pathway is ideal for students who are interested in how the design of electronic systems and infrastructure can support improvements in safety and quality in their work and organization.

This pathway provides students the tools to be able to function as leaders and guides their decision making related to informatics. Within the traditional program, students who satisfy foundational knowledge prerequisites in information systems can register for courses that layout core functions of information systems as they function within health care organizations. Students will explore the importance of the interface with frontline clinical providers, and strategies in acquiring the appropriate clinical data to answer quality and safety questions. In addition, students will complete a capstone project related to medical informatics.

Identify which elements of information systems can be leveraged to improve the quality and safety of healthcare. This will be achieved by recognizing the fundamental role and list of integrated functions that information systems provide to support the delivery of care.

Develop skills to lead and guide frontline providers as they make the argument for change in the electronic environment. This will be achieved through an operational understanding of the health informatics field in course work combined with the expert knowledge of frontline workflow and how the combination is necessary to have a measurable impact on quality outcomes and patient safety.

HMS master students come together to answer this question.

Analyze the evolving definitions of quality and safety in health care, and how they can be measured and improved. Explore how culture, human factors and system theory affect safety science, and examine how detection methods affect error impact. Special focus areas include:.

Examine the role of informatics in health care improvement. Explore the digital infrastructure for capturing and organizing data, as well as user interfaces used by patients and providers. You will focus on collect and display data in the context of real improvement work. Other topics include health care privacy issues and the design of:.

Gain an of leadership concepts that are most relevant to safety and quality, as well as those required to drive meaningful change. You will learn to initiate action in the current complex health care environment in which stakeholders have varying and often competing needs. Foundational concepts include:.

Making a financial case for quality and safety.

Learn to assess outcomes specific to ongoing quality improvement (QI) research using statistical processes.

Obtain an of malpractice and evolution of the field, along with strategies for promoting safety and error disclosure. You will explore innovations and interventions in different areas of risk, including:.

Improving the Patient Experience at Mount Auburn Hospital by Focusing on Communication Medications.

Offered in full-time (one year) and part-time (two years) options, this quality and safety program features a unique three-tiered academic model:.

This course provides students with a foundation in patient safety. students explore the state of health care today. Fundamental concepts in safety follow, including the interplay of culture, human factors and system theory as critical components of safety science. Approaches to adverse events are reviewed along with how detection methods can alter the impact of the error.

Special areas of focus are discussed, including procedural safety, medication safety, ambulatory safety and cognitive bias.

After framing the current state of safety and quality in a historical perspective, this course builds on prerequisite learning modules to employ critical quality improvement (QI) tools and understand the power of data. Students focus on collect and display data in the context of real improvement work. The course shares examples of how data can change care at every level of the health care system. Students complete a short primer on systems engineering and two workshops on design and behavioral change.

This course teaches students to assess outcomes for ongoing QI research using statistics.

The spring seminar will begin with the implementation plan that students developed in Seminar I. Coached by their mentors, students will reflect on the process of implementation as they explore effective approaches to navigating change in a health care unit. This seminar will conclude with a capstone symposium during which candidates will briefly present both their projects and their reflections as learners.

This course applies the lenses of value and cost to the health care delivery system. Students will learn the evolving definitions of value from the perspective of different stakeholders in the health care system and their drivers for change. The varying definitions of costs and implications on value will be discussed.

This course presents an of malpractice and evolutions in the field, along with strategies for promoting safety and error disclosure. Students explore innovations and interventions in different areas of risk, including diagnostic process, communication failures, procedural safety and medication safety.

This course serves as a primer on the role of informatics in health care improvement. Students will gain an understanding of the digital infrastructure that captures and organizes data, and the user interfaces for patients and providers. Topics will include the design of clinical databases, electronic health records, patient portals, as well as health care privacy issues.

This course highlights the patient interface with the health care system and provides a unique perspective to health care professionals engaged in safety and quality improvement.

To patient concerns. It features a combination of traditional and innovative learning approaches as well as small group discussions.

This course focuses on changes and best practices to combat known risks in health care today. These include approaches to hospital-acquired conditions, as well as systematic interventions to recognize and minimize harm both in hospital and ambulatory.

Settings and between. Strategies to support a culture of safety, including spreading knowledge, teamwork training and managing unprofessional behavior are explored.

The advanced content discusses system interventions to improve the quality of care. Topics such as value, the patient experience and health care disparities as measures of quality are explored.

The process of change is not simple in health care environments. Systems are complex, and stakeholders have different individual needs. This course provides an of leadership concepts that are most relevant to safety and quality and the cultures that leaders need to establish. These include foundational concepts in change management, negotiation and consensus-building, making a financial case for quality and safety and managing teams for improvement.

Safety and quality operations are continuing to evolve as the field grows. This course will present focused primers in two fields: implementation science and population health. In addition, students will have.

The opportunity to explore emerging concepts, such as emotional harm to providers and patients, safety implications of provider burnout and techniques to train team members in quality and safety.

HQS 702: Applied QI and Safety (4 Cr).

CSO 708: Integrating New Technology into Healthcare (2 cr).

HQS 705: Patient Engagement in QIPS (2 Cr).

CSO 708: Integrating Technology into Healthcare (2 Cr).

There has never been a greater need for leadership in our healthcare system. Our graduate programs educate and develop leaders who have the substantive knowledge and skills necessary to lead these changes.

Designed for clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals who wish to partake in a mentored capstone practicum to design and implement a quality or safety intervention.

Designed for healthcare professionals who want to acquire an in-depth of the fields of healthcare quality and patient safety.

Designed to provide a strong academic foundation for doctoral students to excel in research that addresses processes and methodologies in clinical and population sciences.

The delivery of our care was full of redundancy and distractions as well. For a while, these concerns went away as I finished my residency and concentrated my clinical effort on primary care.

I found the program to be stimulating, exciting and rewarding. The program immediately expanded my professional opportunities. My employers, clients and colleagues are extremely impressed with the knowledge I gained in the program.

The Master of Science in Health Care Quality and Safety program is an executive degree program designed to prepare busy health care professionals for leadership roles in the quality and safety areas in hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, and other health care organizations.

Professionals in health care quality and safety manage the strategic and operational aspects of quality operations; establish goals and standards; lead the quality improvement programs; provide training and coaching in quality improvement tools and techniques; develop, implement and monitor measures to assess quality performance; direct organization-wide quality initiatives including the National Patient Safety Initiatives; and direct ongoing monitoring of accreditation survey readiness activities.

This is a 16-month cohort program with a new cohort beginning each fall semester. The program will require 36 credit hours and will have a thesis option and a non-thesis option. Classes will be offered online. Applicants with healthcare work experience in clinical or non-clinical settings are preferred.

The program begins accepting applications for each Fall cohort on September 1 of the preceding year. All of the applications are submitted through the Apply Texas system and are processed by the Office of Admissions.

The MSN Healthcare Quality and Safety (HQS) program is designed to provide a convenient way for working registered nurses to earn their graduate degrees. In the HQS program, students will transform as a professional for the challenge of continuously improving the quality and safety of healthcare systems.

The HQS Master's degree program in Nursing at Jacksonville University is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education. The program is offered in part-time and full-time tracks so you can learn at your own pace. JU's MSN Healthcare Quality and Safety program prepares you to take the next step in your career whether that be a promotion or graduate school.

The Occupational Health and Safety master’s program, a concentration in Engineering Technology, offers mostly evening classes to accommodate working adults attending school part-time. Occupational health and safety specialists analyze workplaces to help prevent disease and injury to workers and damage to the environment related to biological, chemical, ergonomic, and physical factors. They may inspect work environments for potential hazards, design new programs and procedures, and enforce public health and safety regulations.

MTSU’s graduate degree includes both thesis and non-thesis options. Courses cover a range of topics such as industrial hygiene, fire safety, federal and state safety and environmental laws, safety psychology, ergonomics, toxicology, industrial safety, and safety planning. Faculty members have strong academic backgrounds and practical work experience in engineering, industrial management, vocational education, safety, and industrial hygiene. Graduate assistantships are available to qualified students. Also there may be internships, short-term work experiences, and cooperative education experiences available.