IPSC IUPUI Inter-professional Course

Health Outcomes and Decision Making
The Indiana Patient Safety Center, The Indiana University School of Nursing, and the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at IUPUI offers a graduate course in evidence-based quality and patient safety during each spring semester. Graduate students in nursing, health administration, and public health care, as well as physicians may enroll.

Topics of the course include:
•Patient safety basics: Observing and creating a culture of safety
•Communication and complex adaptive systems
•Reliability and design
•Tools school: Methods and tools to reduce harm
•Reducing harm in specific areas of risk
•Leadership for patient safety
•Health policy perspective
•Leading transformational change

Faculty include:
•Patricia Ebright, Ph.D., IU School of Nursing
•Betsy Lee, Indiana Patient Safety Center
•Jamie Workman, IUPUI
•And other invited guest faculty.

For more information on the 2010 program, contact Patricia Ebright, DNS, associate professor, department of adult health, IU School of Nursing, at 317/274-7912 or prebrigh@iupui.edu.