Creative 'tips' to integrate human factors/ergonomics principles and methods with patient safety and quality improvement clinical education.

Vosper, Helen; Hignett, Sue; Bowie, Paul

Abstract

The goal of these 12 tips is to enhance the effectiveness of safety and improvement work in frontline healthcare practice by providing a framework for integration of Human Factors and Ergonomics (HFE) theory and approaches within undergraduate curricula, postgraduate training and healthcare improvement programs. This paper offers both support and challenges to healthcare educators when planning the inclusion of HFE principles within existing curricula. The 12 tips include the systems framework (Tip 1, 3), HFE tools and competency (Tips 2, 7), misunderstandings (Tips 4, 5), and ideas for implementation (Tip 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12). They will support the goal of enhancing the performance of care systems (productivity, safety, efficiency, quality) and the wellbeing of all the people (patient outcomes, staff presenteeism).

Citation

VOSPER, H., HIGHNETT, S. and BOWIE, P. 2018. Creative 'tips' to integrate human factors/ergonomics principles and methods with patient safety and quality improvement clinical education. In Bagnara, S., Tartaglia, R., Albolino, S., Alexander, T. and Fujita, Y. (eds.) Proceedings of the 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2018), 26-30 August 2018, Florence, Italy. Advances in intelligent systems and computing, 818. Cham: Springer [online], volume 1: healthcare ergonomics, pages 97-101. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96098-2_14

• Conference Name: 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2018)
• Conference Location: Florence, Italy
• Start Date: Aug 26, 2018
• End Date: Aug 30, 2018
• Acceptance Date: May 31, 2018
• Online Publication Date: Aug 8, 2018
• Publication Date: Aug 8, 2018
• Deposit Date: Aug 14, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Aug 9, 2019
• Electronic ISSN: 2194-5357
• Publisher: Springer
• Volume: 1: healthcare ergonomics
• Pages: 97-101
• Series Title: Advances in intelligent systems and computing
• Series Number: 818
• Series ISSN: 2194-5357
• ISBN: 9783319960975
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96098-2_14
• Keywords: Education; Competency; Accreditation
• Public URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10059/3066