Join our Popular Root Cause Analysis Training
Healthcare professionals from all sectors find our virtual interactive RCA training highly beneficial in their career development.
The ACHS Improvement Academy (IA) run our most popular course RCA several times a year to support healthcare professionals and consumers involved in serious adverse incident reviews in this vital field of patient safety.
What is RCA?
Root Cause Analysis (RCA) in healthcare, is one of several methodologies which involve a systems focused approach to identifying the root causes of adverse events and uncovering the underlying factors that contributed to these events. The training equips healthcare professionals with the knowledge and skills to undertake the steps required for an effective serious adverse incident review and to make recommendations to prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future.
How is the course run?
Training is conducted as two, 3-hour virtual interactive sessions over consecutive days. Participants practice undertaking an RCA using a pre-allocated case study. Past attendees have found our RCA training to be engaging, practical and interactive.
Key outcomes
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Understand how Root Cause Analysis links with Clinical Incident Management and Quality Improvement as per the Clinical Governance Framework and Standard 1 NSQHS second edition
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Understand the policy and legislative requirements of undertaking a Root Cause Analysis
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Have a practical understanding of the steps of the RCA process
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Develop skills in conducting staff interviews to identify the sources of clinical process failure
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Be able to develop recommendations which can be tested using plan, do, study, act cycles
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Be able to formulate an implementation plan to ensure recommendations drive continuous improvement in patient quality and safety
More details of this course can be found here.
Who will find this course useful?
Our course is suitable for clinical managers, team leaders, directors, and patient safety officers new to RCA. Frontline clinicians with a firsthand perspective on patient care will also find this training highly beneficial for their career development.
For those who have completed our RCA training or have pre-existing knowledge of RCA, our advanced RCA Report Writing Training is highly recommended to build upon the foundational knowledge of our RCA training. The course delves deep into the specific skills required to write RCA reports that meet the needs of multiple statkeholders.
What others have said about the RCA training course
“Good learning atmosphere, breakout sessions to discuss cases, structure and practice of RCA well explained.” – Past Participant
“I completed the training so that we could apply the RCA process to aged care incidents. The training was thorough and the use of individual related case studies helped to establish the process.” – Past Participant
Our final RCA training session this year will run on 07 Nov 2023. Click here to register now.
We are excited to launch our 2024 education calendar soon. Stay tuned on our website for the release of new training session dates.
