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Series 5: Using QI tools for patient safety - Checklists and more

QI Boxset series 5 will introduce you to QI (Quality Improvement) tools and checklists, showing you why they are an important part of QI. You will learn about how checklists can help improve patient safety, why they are beneficial to teams, clients and animals, and how to structure your own checklists to fit your circumstances. The series is arranged into episodes, each one including information and multimedia to support your learning.

The QI Boxset will help you learn about Quality Improvement with small bite-sized episodes. Just like streaming services, you can work your way through each episode or scroll to pick and choose what you want to watch, read or listen to.

Series 5: Using QI tools for patient safety - Checklists and more

Episode 1: What is a checklist?

Description:

Find out what checklists are and why they are important in practice.

CPD: 2 hours 15 minutes

Authors: Laura Playforth, Matt McMillan, Amanda Boag, Pam Mosedale, Sally Everitt

Series 5: Using QI tools for patient safety - Checklists and more

Episode 2: Implementing your checklist

Description:

Find out why surgical safety checklists are necessary in practice.

CPD: 45 minutes

Authors: RCVS Knowledge Quality Improvement Advisory Board, Helen Silver-MacMahon,

Series 5: Using QI tools for patient safety - Checklists and more

Episode 3: Using checklists in your practice

Description:

This module outlines how you can get started with using checklists in your practice. Includes checklist examples developed and kindly shared by other practices and organisations, as inspiration for you to develop your own checklists.

CPD: 2 hours

Authors: Pam Mosedale, Falon Hepburn, Debra Archer, RCVS Knowledge Quality Improvement Advisory Board

Series 5: Using QI tools for patient safety - Checklists and more

Episode 4: Other QI tools

Description:

This episode details how checklists and other QI tools help us communicate and work together to improve outcomes and keep our patients and teams safe.

CPD: 1 hour

Authors: Angela Rayner, Pam Mosedale, Luiz Santos, Helen Ballantyne