Competency information

Details

Investigate an incident

Considerations

  • The role and responsibilities of DoH Central Alerting System
  • Requirements for reporting incidents in appropriate detail
  • Specific device applied to resolution of alert in question
  • Key information necessary to enable effective incident investigation
  • The institution’s incident reporting mechanism
  • Methods of root cause analysis
  • Institutional policies relating to incident reporting and medical engineering response to ensure device quarantined and evidence preserved
  • Information systems to extract safety alert and incident data to enable critical review and organisational learning
  • Specialist knowledge to recommend patient safety improvements
  • The organisational risk management processes
  • Requirements and optimal methods for sharing results of analysis

Relevant learning outcomes

# Outcome
# 2 Outcome Act on notices and identify corrective actions to take