DESCRIPTION
CUSP Foundation Course provides a strong grounding in the knowledge and problem-solving skills you need to develop and sustain an effective CUSP team. Participants learn fundamental CUSP concepts and then apply those concepts in realistic scenarios. Successful completion of this course is required for the one-day Advanced CUSP workshop
OBJECTIVES
After participating in this activity, the attendees will able to:
- Identify actions and use tools associated with three phases of CUSP: pre-CUSP work, CUSP implementation, and sustaining CUSP.
- Design a plan to assess and improve patient safety culture in your unit or work setting
- Assess teamwork & communication challenges that might impact patient safety efforts in your unit or work setting & develop a strategy to overcome them
- Design strategies to combine technical and adaptive work as you establish and sustain a CUSP team in your unit or work setting.
TARGET AUDIENCE
- Patient safety officers
- Medical directors
- Administrators
- Unit-based safety champions
- Frontline staff
- Nurses
- Individuals moving into a safety oversight role
- Quality improvement professionals
- Risk managers
