Competency information
Details
Interpret safety alerts and extract key information, such as actions, deadlines and stakeholders
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 |
| # 3 | Outcome Investigate incidents using root cause analysis or equivalent methodologies |