Healthcare Quality & Safety Courses and Certifications

Leading Healthcare Quality and Safety

1479 ratings at Coursera

Lead patient safety and quality improvement work in healthcare: apply the Donabedian structure-process-outcome framework, PDSA cycles, just culture, and organizational change models.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Quality and Safety in Ambulatory Healthcare Management

37 ratings at Coursera

Manage quality and safety in ambulatory care: compare CMS/MIPS, NCQA and HEDIS measures, run root cause analyses, build CUSP programs, and track KPIs for continuous improvement.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Improving Global Health: Focusing on Quality and Safety

10 ratings

An introduction to the emerging field of global healthcare quality.

• edX
• 10 weeks, 2-4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Crisis Resource Management

57 ratings

Learn the skills critical for effective teamwork in a crisis situation with focus on preparation, decision-making, and reflection across multidisciplinary teams.

• edX
• 12 weeks, 3-6 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

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A Practical Approach to Clinical Governance and Continuous Improvement

This course is for leaders in health and aged care. This course includes 11 modules that provide a practical overview of key concepts that support quality improvement in health and aged care.

• OpenLearning
• 5 hours
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Aged Care Clinical Risk Management Nursing Champion Course

This indepth CPD course was created to inspire and equip registered healthcare professionals with proven clinical risk management strategies to truly elevate the quality of life for our loved ones.

• OpenLearning
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Aged Care Clinical Risk Management Fundamentals

This 2.5 hour short CPD course was created to inspire and equip registered healthcare professionals with risk strategies to truly elevate the quality of life for our loved ones.

• OpenLearning
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

The Royal College of Pathologists

Clinical Governance and Audit - Professor Tahir Pillay

11 ratings

This lecture explains how clinical laboratory audits support governance and continuous quality improvement through standards, implementation, and re-audit.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Planning a Patient Safety or Quality Improvement Project (Patient Safety III)

203 ratings at Coursera

Plan and launch healthcare improvement projects: scope and prioritize initiatives, apply A3 problem solving and root cause tools, use the TRiP model, and run design thinking.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Measuring the Success of a Patient Safety or Quality Improvement Project (Patient Safety VI)

97 ratings at Coursera

Learn to measure whether a healthcare quality or safety project works: choose good performance measures, find public reporting data, visualize findings, and use mixed-methods evidence to iterate.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Healthcare Quality Improvement and Decision-Making

Develop healthcare quality improvement initiatives: create project charters, apply quality science decision-making tools, run plan-do-study-act cycles, and build a culture of safety and high reliability.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Understanding the Healthcare Innovation Process II

Analyze clinical and administrative healthcare processes with hypothesis testing, design of experiments, and Lean Six Sigma, then apply innovation across digital health, pharma, and medical devices.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Fixing Healthcare Delivery

138 ratings at Coursera

Cut preventable medical errors: apply Toyota Production System waste reduction, root cause analysis, driver diagrams, PDSA cycles, run charts, teamwork, and adaptive leadership to healthcare delivery.

• Coursera
• 9 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Career Certificate

Quality Improvement in Healthcare

153 ratings at Coursera

Explore what quality means in healthcare, apply improvement tools and techniques, and analyse data over time to guide and evaluate initiatives in health services and population health.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 3 courses

Violence Against Healthcare

80 ratings at Coursera

Learn to protect health care in armed conflict: ethical dilemmas on the ground, international humanitarian law, ambulance and hospital security, armed groups, and civil society's role.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course