Sharing LearnIng from Practice to improve Patient Safety Erasmus Project

Project Title

Sharing LearnIng from Practice to improve Patient Safety

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Open and distance learning; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

SLIPPS Multidisciplinary Patient Safety project responds to the need to improve patient safety education. Health professions students learn in university & work placements. Students experience a range of patient safety episodes from good practice to adverse events. Such experiences are often overlooked & learning opportunities lost. SLIPPS collected & used these experiences to enhance education. Objectives: Develop SLIPPs Learning Event Recording Tool (SLERT)(IO2) & Database (IO1); Gather student event records (SLERs); Create website & public virtual learning centre (IO3); Analyse SLERs for development of Simulation scenarios & Patient safety game (IO4) & Virtual seminars(IO5); Promote patient safety education network; Develop other activities; encourage closer relationships among academia & health services.Participating organisations; 7 Universities, 7 health care organisations: UK Northumbria University > 33,500 students, > 650 staff. Degree, master & doctorate. Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust. Care services to > 500,000 people ~11,000 staff. Finland: University of Eastern Finland ~ 15,000 students 2,800 staff. Master’s & Doctorates. Saimaa University of Applied Sciences ~ 3000 students ~260 staff, Degree courses. Kuopio University Hospital ~4300 staff > 840,000 patients. South Karelia Social & Health Care District ~4200 employees, care to ~ 130.000 citizens. Lappeenranta University of Technology ~6000 students. Computer sciences, Degree, master & doctorate. Italy: University of Genova > 40000 students, Degree, master & doctorate. San Martino Regional Hospital, Genoa ~ 1500 beds ~ 5000 staff. Norway: Østfold University College ~ 7000 students ~ 550 staff, Degree & masters level. Centre for Development of Institutional & Home Care Services, Østfold County, services ~ 293000 population. Spain: University of Alicante ~28000 students > 2400 staff. Degree, master & doctorate. University Hospital of San Juan de Alicante, ~2.000 professionals, care to ~236000.
Main project activities; Monthly management group & IO sub-group meetings. Rigorous development of multidisciplinary multi-language tool (SLERT) for gathering students accounts & reflections on important learning events experienced in practice placements. Gathering > 300 learning event records (SLERs). SLERs analysis to develop educational resources (IOs); research into patient safety experiences & placement learning. Creating database to house & search SLERs. Establish SLIPPs website, virtual learning centre & SLIPPs database access, educational resources & information. Develop relationships between health care organisations & universities. Social media presence: blog, website Twitter & Facebook. Evaluate SLERT use. Promote other projects & involvement of others. Dissemination activity: multiplier events, national & international presentations, reports & publications. Foster external interest & network, share resources with institutions, countries & professions.
Results; Successful development of IOs, freely availability on website & virtual learning centre. SLERT embedded in several partner countries curricula, so becoming integral part of health professions education. Development of other relationships & activities: Systematic narrative literature review & SLIPPs project publications; Use of SLIPPs data (PhD studentship UK, Dissertations UoG, SUAS); Additional funded education research project (UNN); Sub-studies with junior colleagues analysing SLERs; Analysis of impact of using SLERT & of student involvement in resource development.
Impacts: SLERT functions as educational device & data collection method. Students involved in IO2 &4 development & described learning from this. Students using SLERT reported enhanced learning via guided reflection on action leading to individual learning. Closer working relationships between health care organisations & academics, evidenced by attendance of clinicians at QAG, Multiplier events, country specific project meetings, input to tool development. Beyond expected: SLERT use for a range of experiences & purposes beyond SLIPPs (e.g. as part of ‘portfolios’ of evidence for professional competencies, for personal reflection outside formal education), students taking learning gained from using SLERT back to work placement, so inspiring learning in communities of practice.
Ongoing benefits: SLERT embedded in curricula of several education programmes (UNN, UoG, SUAS, UEF, UoA). Continued use of simulation scenarios in several partner sites (e.g. SUAS, UoG). Website & database maintained ~ 3 years after project end, so longer term benefit as research & educational resource for SLIPPs team & beyond. Network links on website to encourage new ‘partners’. Contnued relationships between academics & practice/work placement educators. New relationships between partner organisations (e.g) new Erasmus student exchange between UNN & UoG, visiting professor appointments, Erasmus training mobility visits, plans for new projects.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 424916 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITY OF NORTHUMBRIA AT NEWCASTLE & Country: UK

Project Partners

• Saimaan ammattikorkeakoulu Oy
• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI GENOVA
• UNIVERSIDAD DE ALICANTE
• HOGSKOLEN I OSTFOLD
• LAPPEENRANNAN-LAHDEN TEKNILLINEN YLIOPISTO LUT
• ITA-SUOMEN YLIOPISTO