Prerequisite
HAD3030H- Concepts and Strategies in Patient Safety
Description
This course will provide the learner with a comprehensive working knowledge of Human Factors (HF) and how it relates to and affects health care safety. It focuses on key concepts and frameworks in HF research and practice and identifies how these can be applied to and tailored depending on the health care issue. This knowledge is relevant to policy makers, practicing clinicians, health care managers, and health services researchers.
Objectives
- Explain the meaning of a variety of key concepts and frameworks in HF practice and research
- Describe the influence of HF on health patient safety issues
- Conduct a heuristic evaluation and usability test to improve an intervention design
Instructor
Sonia Pinkney
Evaluation
- Assignment 1: Heuristic Analysis Presentation (Group)
- 20%
- Assignment 2: Usability Test (Group)
- 25%
- Assignment 3: HF Methods Presentation
- 30%
- Assignment 4: Usability Test Report (Group)
- 15%
- Participation
- 10%