Patient Safety courses include:
With insights from the forefront of veterinary patient safety research and expertise in neuroscience and human psychology, learn more about taking a systems-thinking approach to help you improve team wellbeing, optimise practice systems, move away from individual blame, and make your practice run more effectively.
Unlock your understanding of improvement within your practice, this course represents another step on your QI journey, spend time with experts in the field of veterinary QI and leave the course with a fully formed QI project plan tailored to your insights and data.
We aim to inspire and empower veterinary nurses to take the lead in their practice with delivering the highest quality care. Demystify quality monitoring in practice and tap into your individual insights and expertise, leaving this course fully geared up to create a QI project for your practice.
How to book
View upcoming course dates on our Courses and workshops page.
Online Anytime courses:
Our VetSafe Essentials course is included as part of your member access to VetSafe, as an online self-paced course (3 modules/6 hours of CPD), embedded within the VetSafe website, making it easy to access and explore at times that work for you.
Building on the foundational knowledge shared in our VetSafe Essentials modules, the VetSafe Mastery course aims to help you build the knowledge, skills and enthusiasm needed to create real change in your practice. Grow your skills, turn mistakes into moments of growth and help build a culture of learning and improvement.
Created by Dr Freya Rooke, this toolkit is a comprehensive introduction to quality improvement theory and methods. Starting out with the theory and historic use of QI methods, we’ll move through to detail key QI methods to be used in both the planning and execution of a veterinary QI project, and cover considerations that need to be made when implementing a project in practice.
Struggling to influence client decisions in animal care? This self-led, six-module course explores the science of human behaviour change to help veterinary professionals communicate effectively, manage resistance, and motivate clients towards positive outcomes. Includes 6 CPD hours with video, reading, and interactive activities.
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