Patient Safety Academy

2012 Patient Safety Academy

Join colleagues and other health care professionals this September in an engaging and thought-provoking day of presentations, workshops, and skill-building activities designed to advance patient safety throughout the state and region.

Workshops in

• Handoff Communications
• Sentinel Events
• Antibiotic Stewardship
• Fall Prevention
• Pain Medication Safety
• Failure Mode Effect Analysis
• Patient Advocacy
• Transparency
• Infection Prevention, and more

Participants also benefit from simulation lab tours, best practices and organization displays, and a book table.

Register here: www.mainecahpatientsafety.net

Hosted by the Maine Critical Access Hospital Patient Safety Collaborative.

Keynote Speaker

Suzanne Gordon is an award-winning journalist and author of 15 books, including her latest “First Do Less Harm: Confronting Inconvenient Problems in Patient Safety.”

She is editor of the Cornell University Press Culture and Politics of Healthcare Work Series and has lectured worldwide on healthcare issues.