Search the hub
Showing results for tags 'Human factors'.
-
Content ArticleA new MIT study identifies six systemic factors contributing to patient hazards in laboratory diagnostics tests. By viewing the diagnostic laboratory data ecosystem as an integrated system, MIT researchers have identified specific changes that can lead to safer behaviours for healthcare workers and healthier outcomes for patients.
- Posted
-
- System safety
- Safety management
- (and 4 more)
-
Content ArticleThis article in Anaesthesia Critical Care & Pain Medicine aims to provide guidelines to define the place of human factors in the management of critical situations in anaesthesia and critical care. The authors aimed to formulate recommendations according to the GRADE® (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation) methodology for four different fields:communicationorganisationworking environmenttrainingThe guidelines produced include a set of recommendations to guide human factors in critical situations.
- Posted
-
- Human factors
- System safety
-
(and 2 more)
Tagged with:
-
Content ArticleDoctors At Work is a series of video podcasts hosted by Dr Mat Daniel. In this episode, Dr Gordon Caldwell shares his experiences of managing and preventing adverse events. He stresses the importance of creating a culture that encourages everyone to speak up. His top tips for preventing errors is to create systems, checklists and routines that ensure a focus on all aspects of care not just the obvious and urgent.
- Posted
-
- Patient
- Patient safety incident
- (and 5 more)
-
Content Article
Left-handedness—A handicap for training in surgery? (2010)
Patient-Safety-Learning posted an article in Surgery
Left-handedness was historically considered a disability and a social stigma, and teachers would make efforts to suppress it in their students. Little data are available on the impact of left-handedness on surgical training and this report aimed to review available data on this subject. The review revealed 19 studies on the subject of left-handedness and surgical training. Key findings include: Left-handedness produced anxiety in residents and their trainers. There was a lack of mentoring on laterality. Surgical instruments, both conventional and laparoscopic, are not adapted to left-handed use and require ambilaterality training from the resident. There is significant pressure to change hand laterality during training. Left-handedness might present an advantage in operations involving situs inversus or left lower limb operations.- Posted
-
- Surgeon
- Surgery - General
- (and 6 more)
-
Content ArticleThis paper addresses the fundamental discipline theoretic question of whether situation awareness is a phenomenon best described by psychology, engineering or systems ergonomics. Each of these disciplines places a different emphasis on the notion of what situation awareness is and how it manifests itself. Each of the perspectives is presented and compared with reference to studies in aviation and other domains.
- Posted
-
- Human factors
- Aviation
-
(and 2 more)
Tagged with:
-
Content ArticleLearn how to become a health systems analyst and use the science of ergonomics to improve patient safety and transform day-to-day working practices. Safety scientists play a major role in preventing unintended harm across many high-consequence industries, improving overall wellbeing and changing the culture of workplaces. Staffordshire University MSc in Human Factors for Patient Safety will teach you how to design applied solutions for health and social care settings. The course is ideal for existing health professionals – from both clinical and non-clinical backgrounds - who want to specialise in care safety, risk, improvement and system transformation and advisory roles. These highly transferable skills are also relevant to many other sectors. Find out more from the link below. Start date: 28 April 2024
- Posted
-
- Training
- Human factors
-
(and 2 more)
Tagged with:
-
Content Article
APIC staffing calculator
Patient-Safety-Learning posted an article in Safe staffing levels
This staffing calculator has been developed by the US Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC). The tool is in beta version and uses input from individual healthcare facilities to provide recommendations to assist with infection prevention staffing decisions. There are three separate calculators: Acute care hospital calculator Long-term care calculator Ambulatory clinic calculator As the tool is currently in development, the data collected from participating organisations will be used to update the calculators and provide the most accurate staffing recommendations.- Posted
-
- Safe staffing
- Medicine - Acute internal
- (and 4 more)
-
Content ArticleThe aim of this study in the Journal of Patient Safety was to identify quantitative evidence for the efficacy of interprofessional learning (IPL) to improve patient outcomes. The authors conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of quantitative patient outcomes after IPL in multidisciplinary healthcare teams reported in the Medline, Scopus, PsycInfo, Embase and CINAHL databases. The authors believe that their results are the first to demonstrate significant quantitative evidence for the efficacy of IPL to translate into changes in clinical practice and improved patient outcomes. They reinforce earlier qualitative work on the value of IPL.
- Posted
-
- Human factors
- Team culture
-
(and 3 more)
Tagged with:
-
EventThis conference will focus on measuring, understanding and acting on patient experience insight, and demonstrating responsiveness to that insight to ensure patient feedback is translated into quality improvement and assurance. Through national updates and case study presentations the conference will support you to measure, monitor and improve patient experience in your service, and ensure that insight leads to quality improvement. Sessions will include learning from patients, improving patient experience, practical sessions focusing on delivering a patient experience based culture, measuring patient experience, demonstrating insight and responsiveness in real time, monitoring and improving staff experience, the role of human factors in improving quality, using patient experience to drive improvement, changing the way we think about patient experience, and learning from excellence in patient experience practice. For further information and to book your place visit https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/virtual-online-courses/patient-experience-insight or email frida@hc-uk.org.uk Follow on Twitter @HCUK_Clare #PatientExp hub members receive a 20% discount. Email info@pslhub.org for the discount code.
- Posted
-
- Patient engagement
- Feedback
-
(and 2 more)
Tagged with:
-
EventThis conference focuses on recognising and responding to the deteriorating patient and ensuring best practice in the use of NEWS2. The conference will include national developments, including the recent recommendations on NEWS2 and Covid-19, and implementing the recommendations from the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch Report Investigation into recognising and responding to critically unwell patients. The conference will include practical case study based sessions on identifying patients at risk of deterioration, improving practice in patient observations, the role of human factors in responding to the deteriorating patient, improving escalation and understanding success factors in escalation, sepsis and Covid-19, involving patients and families in recognising deterioration, using clinical judgement, and improving the communication and use of NEWS2 in the community, including care homes, and at the interface of care. The Recording of NEWS2 score, escalation time and response time for unplanned critical care admissions is now an NHS CQUIN goal. For further information and to book your place visit https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/virtual-online-courses/deteriorating-patient-summit or email aman@hc-uk.org.uk. hub members receive a 20% discount. Email info@pslhub.org for the discount code. Follow on Twitter @HCUK_Clare #DeterioratingPatient
- Posted
-
- Deterioration
- Human factors
-
(and 2 more)
Tagged with:
-
Content ArticleA series of LinkedIn articles on systems thinking from Phil Evans, Independent HealthTech Consultant.
- Posted
-
- System safety
- Safety behaviour
- (and 4 more)
-
Event
A practical guide to Human Factors in healthcare
Sam posted an event in Community Calendar
Aimed at Clinicians and Managers, this national virtual conference will provide a practical guide to human factors in healthcare, and how a human factors approach can improve patient care, quality, process, and safety. The conference delves into integrating human factors into healthcare systems and processes, clinical decision making, healthcare system design, quality of patient experience, medication safety, and workload, fatigue, and stress management. Throughout the day, there will be interactive sessions, small breakout groups, and collaborative exercises, fostering a dynamic learning experience. For further information and to book your place visit https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/virtual-online-courses/a-practical-guide-to-human-factors-in-healthcare or email kate@hc-uk.org.uk hub members receive a 20% discount. Email info@pslhub.org for discount code. Follow on Twitter @HCUK_Clare #HumanFactors- Posted
-
- Human factors
- Stress
-
(and 4 more)
Tagged with:
-
Content ArticleInterprofessional communication is of extraordinary importance for patient safety. To improve interprofessional communication, joint training of the different healthcare professions is required in order to achieve the goal of effective teamwork and interprofessional care. The aim of this pilot study from Heier et al. published in BMC Medical Education was to develop and evaluate a joint training concept for nursing trainees and medical students in Germany to improve medication error communication.
- Posted
-
- Communication
- Human factors
- (and 6 more)
-
Content ArticleReporting behaviour associated with safety-related accidents, incidents and hazards is a concern for many managers, regulators, safety specialists, operational staff and patients. In this blog, Stephen Shorrock looks at the many influences on reporting behaviour and how these influences are interrelated.
- Posted
-
- Reporting
- Human factors
-
(and 2 more)
Tagged with:
-
Content ArticleThe PreAccident Podcast is a bi-weekly discussion of the New View of safety, Systems Safety, Safety Differently and building a community of practice and thought. Hosted by Todd Conklin, this episode examines the idea that a tolerance for failure is a precondition to success.
- Posted
-
- Human factors
- System safety
-
(and 1 more)
Tagged with:
-
Content Article
FRAM in a nutshell (2021)
Patient-Safety-Learning posted an article in Techniques
FRAM (Functional Resonance Analysis Method) is a graphical tool for demonstrating how a process is done through multiple functions and activities. This blog describes how FRAM can be used to analyse any process using four steps: Identifying and describing essential functions to have a successful process Finding out if there is the variability of the functions (if the process can be done in another way) Determining how the variability of a function impact the process Introducing recommendation for managing the undesired outcomes- Posted
-
- Human factors
- Safety process
-
(and 1 more)
Tagged with:
-
Content Article
Designing in risk: Measuring safety part 3
NMacLeod posted an article in Improving patient safety
The relationship between management and the workforce, in very simplistic terms, can be considered one of reward in return for effort. The contracted effort is communicated through a roster. In organisations that have a continuous operation, blocks of effort are distributed to maintain the flow of output. The organisation of effort, then, is a legitimate function of management. Norman's previous blog looked at performance variability under normal conditions. In this blog, Norman looks at the impact of physiological states and how management’s organisation of effort degrades decision-making.- Posted
- 1 comment
-
1
-
- System safety
- Human factors
- (and 8 more)
-
Content ArticleIn this essay for Interactions magazine, Donald A Norman argues that human-centred design has become such a dominant theme in design that it is now accepted by interface and application designers automatically, without thought, let alone criticism. He believes this as a dangerous state and his essay aims provoke thought, discussion and reconsideration of some of the fundamental principles of human-centred design.
- Posted
-
- Human factors
- User centred design
-
(and 2 more)
Tagged with:
-
Content ArticleIn this series of blogs, Stephen Shorrock looks at different interpretations of the term 'human factors'. He outlines four key ideas that seem to exist, each of which has a somewhat different meaning and implications. The human factor Factors of humans Factors affecting humans Socio-technical system interaction
- Posted
-
- Human factors
- Ergonomics
-
(and 1 more)
Tagged with:
-
Content ArticleThe second annual Safety For All conference was held at the Royal College of Physicians in London on Tuesday 5th December 2023. Over 100 members of the healthcare community attended this event, including occupational health professionals, patient safety experts, frontline staff, patients and academics. The conference was hosted by the Safer Healthcare and Biosafety Network and Patient Safety Learning as part of the Safety For All campaign, supported by B. Braun, BD, Boston Scientific and Stryker. Attendees had the opportunity to hear from two keynote speakers: Lynn Woolsey, UK Deputy Chief Nurse at the Royal College of Nursing and Dr Henrietta Hughes, Patient Safety Commissioner for England. The conference was chaired and facilitated by Dr Rob Galloway, A&E Consultant at Brighton and Sussex Hospital NHS Trust, with a welcome introduction from Dr Ian Bullock, CEO of the Royal College of Physicians. There were a number of panel sessions and presentations throughout the day which are summarised in the attachment below, including on sustainability, antimicrobial resistance and antibiotic underdosing, violence at work, clinical communications, human factors, implementing the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF), and women's health and the menopause.
- Posted
-
- Patient engagement
- Sustainability
- (and 8 more)
-
Event
Rewards of managing risk in manufacturing
Patient Safety Learning posted an event in Community Calendar
This free webinar will be discussing what it means to ‘Do Quality Differently’, including proven practices that will help you drive improved performance and manage risk. Hear multiple case studies that illustrate examples of results that are possible from implementation of these practices. Learn about practical ‘how to’ guidance to help you either get started in integrating these practices or improve the likelihood they will be sustained if you have already started on a Human Performance journey. Who will this be of interest to? Anyone in any industry who has a need to manage operational risk and improve operational performance. Register- Posted
-
- Ergonomics
- Human factors
-
(and 1 more)
Tagged with:
-
Content Article
Developing cultural change in healthcare: Part 2 – by Dawn Stott
Dawn Stott posted an article in Good practice
In a two-part blog for the hub, Dawn Stott, Business Consultant and former CEO of the Association for Perioperative Practice (AfPP), talks about the strategies that can help you develop cultural change in your organisation. In part one, Dawn set out the steps to develop a programme of change to support you to achieve good solutions. In part two, Dawn gives you tips on how to assess the culture of your organisation and establish a programme of standardisation.- Posted
-
2
-
- Organisational culture
- Standards
- (and 4 more)
-
Content ArticleNew developments in artificial intelligence (AI) are extensively discussed in public media and scholarly publications. While in many academic disciplines debates on the challenges and opportunities of AI and how to best address them have been launched, the human factors and ergonomics (HFE) community has been strangely quiet. In this paper, Gudela Grote discusses three main areas in which HFE could and should significantly contribute to the socially and economically viable development and use of AI: decisions on automation versus augmentation of human work; alignment of control and accountability for AI outcomes; counteracting power imbalances among AI stakeholders. She then outlines actions that the HFE community could undertake to improve their involvement in AI development and use, foremost translating ethical into design principles, strengthening the macro-turn in HFE, broadening the HFE design mindset, and taking advantage of new interdisciplinary research opportunities.
- Posted
-
- AI
- Human factors
-
(and 3 more)
Tagged with:
-
Content ArticleThe healthcare workplace is a high-stress environment. All stakeholders, including patients and providers, display evidence of that stress. High stress has several effects. Even acutely, stress can negatively affect cognitive function, worsening diagnostic acumen, decision-making, and problem-solving. It decreases helpfulness. As stress increases, it can progress to burnout and more severe mental health consequences, including depression and suicide. One of the consequences (and causes) of stress is incivility. Both patients and staff can manifest these unkind behaviours, which in turn have been shown to cause medical errors. The human cost of errors is enormous, reflected in thousands of lives impacted every year. The economic cost is also enormous, costing at least several billion dollars annually. The warrant for promoting kindness, therefore, is enormous. Kindness creates positive interpersonal connections, which, in turn, buffers stress and fosters resilience. Kindness, therefore, is not just a nice thing to do: it is critically important in the workplace. Ways to promote kindness, including leadership modelling positive behaviours as well as the deterrence of negative behaviours, are essential. A new approach using kindness media is described. It uplifts patients and staff, decreases irritation and stress, and increases happiness, calmness, and feeling connected to others.
- Posted
-
- Human factors
- Behaviour
- (and 6 more)