Welcome to our course on Human Factors in healthcare.
This course is designed for all healthcare staff, both clinical and non-clinical. Over the up coming module's, we will explore what Human Factors are and why they are a vital part of improving patient safety and your wellbeing at work.
You will learn how the systems, equipment, processes, and environment you work with can be better designed to support you, your team, and your patients.
This is not another course about 'trying harder' or 'paying more attention'. It is about how we, can learn to work smarter and safer by understanding how people really perform under pressure.
We will explore how we can design our systems to make it easy to do the right thing, and hard to do the wrong thing.
Course Learning Outcomes
- Define Human Factors and explain their relevance to patient safety.
- Recognise how environment, systems, and behaviour influence performance.
- Identify common causes of human error and apply strategies to mitigate them.
- Communicate effectively and support teamwork using Human Factors principles.
- Apply Human Factors understanding to improve safety and system design in your workplace.
