Postgraduate - UnitMPH5285 - Human factors for patient safety

By completion of the unit, the student will have:

1. In-depth understanding of common human factors issues impacting in healthcare settings, what their effect on human performance are hand how other domains can provide lessons for health;
2. An understanding of human error theories and an appreciation of barriers and safeguards to error and the factors that degrade these in healthcare;
3. An awareness of the concept of resilience and how people offer a layer of protection, in spite of the high cognitive and physical workload demands that healthcare places on its workers;
4. An in depth understanding of risk perception and safety culture and their impact on frontline behaviours in healthcare settings;
5. A knowledge and appreciation of the risks involved in poorly planned technology innovation in high-risk domains like healthcare and the role of design and risk assessment;
6. An appreciation of the current systems of accountability (or lack thereof) that exist in healthcare and their impact on both incident investigation and organisational learning.