Deployed Patient Safety Training: Basic Course

For information regarding the Basic or Executive Deployed Patient Safety Courses, please reach out to Mr. John Vinacco at the email address listed below:

John J. Vinacco, Jr.
john.vinacco.1.ctr@us.af.mil 

Target Audience

This activity provides continuing education for physicians, physician assistants, nurses, and healthcare executives. A certificate of attendance is available for other attendees.

Learning Objectives

  1. Analyze Department of Defense (DOD) direction to Patient Safety (PS) programs from key DOD publications.
  2. Evaluate PS programs, directives, concepts, “safe culture” and “just culture”.
  3. Relate patient safety goals within all Military Treatment Facilities (MTFs) and understand why PS is essential when medical professionals deploy and deliver “operational clinical services” in “expeditionary” or “deployed MTFs”.
  4. Distinguish findings/gaps of the Air Force Audit Agency Report (AFAA, Jan 2011), as they relate to Defense Health Agency (DHA) requirements for PS in deployed MTFs, in agreement with (IAW) DOD Instruction (DODI) 6025.13 and DHA Program Manual (PM) (DHA-PM) 6025.13.
  5. Relate the foundations of PS to the Deployed Patient Safety Program (DPSP).
  6. Evaluate the need to operationalize the role of the PS Manager (PSM) at any deployed location.
  7. Distinguish the relationship of our DPSP with the Patient Movement System (PMS) and Aeromedical Evacuation (AE).
  8. Identify Air Force Expeditionary Medical Systems (AF EMS), Unit Type Code (UTC) position descriptions and sample deployment instructions for completing Category III Training Requirements.
  9. Understand the value of the “leadership” role to PS programs (emphasis on Chief Medical Officer [CMO] Army Director of Clinical Care Services [DCCS], AF Chief of Medical Staff [CMS], AF Chief Nurse [CN] or Deputy Commander for Nursing [DCN]) and oversight roles.
  10. Outline resources, point of contacts (POCs) leadership reach back and relevance of Clinical Practice Guidance (CPG) and national patient safety goal (NPSG) items.
  11. Establish PS team, brief to executive staff with oversight of SGH/SGN, and PS Event Review Team (PS ERT).
  12. Provide overview of PS to entire staff using the PS team members.
  13. Review PS criteria and tools, such as, “Team Strategy and Tools to Enhance Performance and PS” (TeamSTEPPS), High Reliable Organization (HRO) principles and Ready Reliable Care (RRC) concepts.
  14. Analyze the systems approach.
  15. Deconstruct the significance of human factors.
  16. Compare and relate “proactive” systems thinking and human factors to PS (“Accident Causation” or “Swiss Cheese” Model and “Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety”) (SEIPS) Model.
  17. Further breakdown the “Accident Causation Model” to the operational view of the SEIPS Model.
  18. Discriminate “reactive” application of these approaches to PS findings, investigations, corrective actions, and relation to “Continuous Process Improvement” (CPI) or “Clinical Quality Improvements” (CQI).
  19. Evaluate the basics of reporting event taxonomies.
  20. Deconstruct the “Causal Continuum Hypothesis” (CCH) and recent data analyses.
  21. Compare reporting responsibilities and Joint Patient Safety Reporting (JPSR) system overview and “Human Factors Analysis Classification System” (HFACS).
  22. Summarize investigation methodologies and review resources and tools.
  23. Compare PSM and PS team role in Patient Advocacy Program (PAP), patient complaint processes and the relationship to PS reporting.
  24. Distinguish PSM with Risk Management (RM) and credentials/privileging responsibilities of CMO, SGH and DCCS.
  25. Describe the PSMs role as staff advocate and relate to staff burn-out and second victim program champions.
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 8.00 AAPA
    DHA J-7 CEPO has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 8.00 hours of AAPA Category 1 CME credits. Physician assistants should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.
  • 8.00 ACCME Non-Physician CME Credit
    DHA J-7 CEPO is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing education. ACCME Non-Physician CME Credit providers will be provided a certificate of participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. ACCME Non-Physician CME Credit providers may receive a maximum of 8.00 hours for completing this Hybrid Course activity.
  • 8.00 ACHE
    DHA J-7 CEPO is authorized to award a maximum of 8.00 hours of pre-approved American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) Qualified Education credit for this program toward advancement, or recertification in the American College of Healthcare Executives. Participants in this program who wish to have the continuing education hours applied toward ACHE Qualified Education credit must self-report their participation. To self-report, participants must log into their MyACHE account and select ACHE Qualified Education Credit.
  • 8.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    DHA J-7 CEPO is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. DHA J-7 CEPO designated this Hybrid Course activity for a maximum of 8.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
  • 8.00 ANCC
    The DHA, J-7, CEPO is accredited by the Joint Accreditation/ Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) to provide this Continuing Nursing Education Hybrid Course for a maximum of 8.00 ANCC contact hours. Nurses should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
  • 8.00 Certificate of Attendance
  • 8.00 IPCE
    This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners can receive up to 8.00 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credits for learning and change. In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by DHA, J-7, CEPO. DHA, J-7, CEPO is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), the American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA), the Association of Regulatory Boards of Optometry's Council on Optometric Practitioner Education (ARBO/COPE), the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB), the American Psychological Association (APA), the American Dental Association’s Continuing Education Recognition Program (ADA CERP), and Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) to provide continuing education for the health care team.
Course opens: 
01/05/2024
Course expires: 
01/05/2025
Part of: 
Deployed Patient Safety Training

John Vinacco, Jr., BS, MA, FACHE, Lt. Col. (ret). Presenter has no financial or non-financial relationships to disclose. All relevant financial relationships have been resolved.

Disclosure

DHA J-7 staff, Planning Committee Members and reviewers have no financial or non-financial interest to disclose. All faculty members have no financial or non-financial interest to disclose.

Available Credit

  • 8.00 AAPA
    DHA J-7 CEPO has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 8.00 hours of AAPA Category 1 CME credits. Physician assistants should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.
  • 8.00 ACCME Non-Physician CME Credit
    DHA J-7 CEPO is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing education. ACCME Non-Physician CME Credit providers will be provided a certificate of participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. ACCME Non-Physician CME Credit providers may receive a maximum of 8.00 hours for completing this Hybrid Course activity.
  • 8.00 ACHE
    DHA J-7 CEPO is authorized to award a maximum of 8.00 hours of pre-approved American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) Qualified Education credit for this program toward advancement, or recertification in the American College of Healthcare Executives. Participants in this program who wish to have the continuing education hours applied toward ACHE Qualified Education credit must self-report their participation. To self-report, participants must log into their MyACHE account and select ACHE Qualified Education Credit.
  • 8.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    DHA J-7 CEPO is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. DHA J-7 CEPO designated this Hybrid Course activity for a maximum of 8.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
  • 8.00 ANCC
    The DHA, J-7, CEPO is accredited by the Joint Accreditation/ Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) to provide this Continuing Nursing Education Hybrid Course for a maximum of 8.00 ANCC contact hours. Nurses should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
  • 8.00 Certificate of Attendance
  • 8.00 IPCE
    This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners can receive up to 8.00 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credits for learning and change. In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by DHA, J-7, CEPO. DHA, J-7, CEPO is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), the American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA), the Association of Regulatory Boards of Optometry's Council on Optometric Practitioner Education (ARBO/COPE), the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB), the American Psychological Association (APA), the American Dental Association’s Continuing Education Recognition Program (ADA CERP), and Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) to provide continuing education for the health care team.
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