What is the AHA-NPSF Patient Safety Leadership Fellowship?
The nationally renowned AHA-NPSF Patient Safety Leadership Fellowship, now in its ninth year, is a one-year intensive professional development program focused on expanding knowledge and skills in patient safety, developing leadership competencies, and promoting breakthroughs in patient safety practice. Through a dynamic, participation-centered, structured learning experience, the program provides health care professionals an opportunity to expand their knowledge and skills in patient safety improvement, integrate innovative improvement strategies into their day-to-day work, and develop the leadership skills needed to foster a culture of safety in their organizations.
In addition to providing an extensive knowledge base in patient safety science and practice, the Fellowship extensively explores the business, cultural, and leadership implications for embracing cultures of safety and teaches fellows the skills necessary to implement change and spread promising practices more systematically. While continuing their professional responsibilities, fellows:
- Attend learning retreats led by national experts in patient safety and quality improvement
- Receive peer support and coaching from leading innovators
- Complete a self-study curriculum and participate in webinars, audioconferences, and virtual discussion groups
- Design and complete an Action Learning Project, a major patient safety or quality improvement project for their organization
Program Benefits
The Patient Safety Leadership Fellowship offers a wide variety of benefits to both the Fellow and their organization, including the skills, knowledge, and leadership capabilities to champion improvement projects, build allies and partners, and develop an organization-wide commitment to safety.
Fellows benefit from:
- Access to nationally recognized faculty
- Development of an extensive knowledge base in patient safety science and practice
- Collaborative peer learning and an active learning community
- Personal leadership skill-building
- Resources to inform your organization's patient safety strategy agenda and execution
Organizations benefit from:
- Greater awareness of safety culture and tools targeted toward physicians, staff, board, and senior leaders
- Project instruction, scoping, assessment, and coaching of staff by nationally recognized faculty
- Staff capable of facilitating, coaching, and sustaining organizational change
- Operational and clinical improvements driven by Fellows' Action Learning Projects
- Savings in time and money due to faster project implementation, more effective results, and less reliance on external consultants
Sponsors and Partners
The Patient Safety Leadership Fellowship has a network of program sponsors and partners from which to draw upon, including:
Sponsors:
- American Hospital Association (AHA)
- National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF)
Partners
- Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET)
- Health Forum
- American Society for Healthcare Risk Management (ASHRM)
- American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE)
- Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM)
To speak with staff or reserve your space, contact Shawn Foster at (312) 422-2933. Applications for the 2010-2011 class of the Patient Safety Leadership Fellowship will be available through February 15, 2010.
