IHI Open School Full Access Individual Subscription
Full Access Individual Subscription
Availability:
Individuals
Term:
12 Months
Format:
Online
Courses:
37
CE Credits:
Yes
Fee:
$399 USD
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Learn with 30+ Online Courses from the Open School Catalog
The IHI Open School is an excellent tool for health and health care professionals looking to advance their careers to the next level. Used by physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers, and a variety of other roles in the health industry, Open School individual subscriptions offer access to asynchronous courses that are great for self-paced learning from anywhere, at any time.
The Open School Full Access Subscription includes all courses in the Open School Full Access catalog, as well as earnable Continuing Education credits.
Access Exclusive Benefits
- Access the full catalog of online courses in quality, safety, population health, equity, health care leadership, person– and family-centered care, and leadership, as well as support for graduate medical education (GME).
- Obtain the Basic Certificate in Quality and Safety and the Safety and Quality Improvement Micro-Credential* in a total of 17.75 hours that includes the introduction to quality, safety, population health, equity, health care leadership, and person – and family-centered care.
- Earn Continuing Education (CE) credits with accreditation from American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), and the National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ). As of April 2023, more than 1.77 million CE credits have been claimed through Open School courses.
Courses
This 12-month subscription provides personal access to more than 30 courses in quality, safety, population health, equity, health care leadership, person- and family-centered care, and leadership, as well as support for graduate medical education (GME).
The Full Access catalog consists of 37 courses, organized around the following topics:
Patient Safety
- PS 101: Introduction to Patient Safety
In this course, you’ll learn why becoming a student of patient safety is critical for everyone involved in health care today, and you will learn a framework for building safer, more reliable systems of care.
- PS 102: From Error to Harm
This course provides an overview of the key concepts in the field of patient safety.
- PS 103: Human Factors and Safety
This course is an introduction to the field of human factors: how to incorporate knowledge of human behavior in the design of safe systems.
- PS 104: Teamwork and Communication
In this course, you’ll learn what makes an effective team through case studies from health care and elsewhere.
- PS 105: Responding to Adverse Events
In this course, we’re going to describe and advocate a patient-centered approach to use when things go wrong
- PS 201: Root Cause Analyses and Actions
This course introduces learners to a systematic response to error called Root Cause Analyses and Actions (RCA2).
- PS 202: Achieving Total Systems Safety
This course will review eight key recommendations for achieving safety on a system-wide level, as proposed by the IHI report Free from Harm: Accelerating Patient Safety Improvement Fifteen Years after To Err Is Human.
- PS 203: Pursuing Professional Accountability and a Just Culture
This course focuses on how organizations can create and foster a culture of safety.
Quality Improvement
- QI 101: Introduction to Health Care Improvement
This course launches you on your journey to becoming a health care change agent.
- QI 102: How to Improve with the Model for Improvement
This course will teach you how to use the Model for Improvement to improve everything from your tennis game to your hospital’s infection rate.
- QI 103: Testing and Measuring Changes with PDSA Cycles
In this course, we’ll take you through basic concepts you need to know to run successful PDSA (Plan-Do-Study-Act) cycles in a clinical setting.
- QI 104: Interpreting Data: Run Charts, Control Charts, and Other Measurement Tools
In this course, we’ll delve into how to draw an effective run chart to create a compelling picture of your progress toward improvement.
- QI 105: Leading Quality Improvement
This course teaches the steps for managing a project through to completion, understanding the psychology of change, and developing skills in interdisciplinary teamwork.
- QI 201: Planning for Spread: From Local Improvements to System-Wide Change
Previous courses in the Quality Improvement catalog focused on testing and implementing a change in one location. This advanced course is about the next logical step: spreading the change.
- QI 202: Addressing Small Problems to Build Safer, More Reliable Systems
In this course, you’ll learn that organizations that successfully manage complexity have a deliberate approach to escalating the small concerns and suggestions of employees.
Triple Aim
- TA 101: Introduction to the Triple Aim for Populations
In this course, you’ll learn that to make progress against many of the most important threats to human health, it’s not enough to improve clinical care for one patient at a time. We also have to focus on improving the health of entire populations.
- TA 102: Improving Health Equity
This three-lesson course will explore health disparities — what they are, why they occur, and how you can help reduce them in your local setting. - TA 103: Increasing Value and Reducing Waste at the Point of Care
This course will provide you with an overview of value in health care.
- TA 104: Building Skills for Anti-Racism Work: Supporting the Journey of Hearts, Minds, and Action
In this course, we will build skills to counter structural racism and improve health equity.
- TA 105: Conservative Prescribing
This course provides an overview of conservative prescribing, an approach that encourages health care professionals to ask questions and carefully weigh the risks and benefits of a medication before starting or continuing a prescription.
- TA 201: Pathways to Population Health
In this course, we present a roadmap for those involved in setting and operationalizing their organization’s population health strategy.
Leadership
- L 101: Introduction to Health Care Leadership
In this course, you’ll learn about a hospital that’s having some trouble with infection control. As you grapple with the case, you’ll learn that leadership isn’t a position of authority — it’s an action.
- L 103: Making Publishable QI Projects Part of Everyday Work
This course demonstrates how careful set-up and agile leveraging of existing resources and expertise can lead to surprisingly robust results for quality improvement (QI).
- L 201: The Role of Leaders in Workforce Safety
In this short course, experts will explore the foundational role of leaders in keeping the health care workforce safe and strategies that have succeeded in reducing physical harm and improving psychological safety across organizations.
Person- and Family-Centered Care
- PFC 101: Introduction to Person- and Family-Centered Care
In this course, you’ll learn about the ideal relationship between patient and provider to promote health — especially for underserved people who face the greatest barriers to health — as well as some practical skills to make the relationship a reality.
- PFC 102: Key Dimensions of Patient- and Family-Centered Care
In this course, you’ll learn the four core concepts of patient-centered care as described by the Institute for Patient- and Family-Centered Care and how to apply them.
- PFC 103: Incorporating Mindfulness into Clinical Practice
This course will show you how to incorporate mindfulness into your practice. You’ll learn how it can improve patient safety, quality of care, the patient experience, and joy in work in any health care setting.
- PFC 104: Confronting the Stigma of Substance Use Disorders
In this short course, you’ll learn to recognize substance use disorders (SUD) as a chronic disease — like diabetes — that can be prevented and treated.
- PFC 201: A Guide to Shadowing: Seeing Care through the Eyes of Patients and Families
In this one-lesson course, we’ll introduce you to patient and family shadowing, a valuable exercise for health professions students and health care professionals at any stage of their career.
- PFC 202: Having the Conversation: Basic Skills for Conversations about End-of-Life Care
This course will help you develop skills to have conversations with patients and their families about their preferences for care at the end of life.
- This course defines age-friendly care and the 4Ms, which presents four evidence-based elements of high-quality care for older adults.
Graduate Medical Education (GME)
- GME 201: Why Engage Trainees in Quality and Safety?
In this course, we’ll discuss several reasons why organizations should strive to incorporate trainees (medical residents and fellows) in quality and safety work.
- GME 202: The Faculty Role: Understanding & Modeling Fundamentals of Quality & Safety
In this course, you’ll gain a better understanding of your current knowledge of quality improvement and patient safety, and then have the opportunity to expand your knowledge where it may be lacking.
- GME 203: Designing Educational Experiences in Health Care Improvement
In this course, we’ll discuss how to create an effective curriculum to teach quality improvement and patient safety.
- GME 204: A Roadmap for Facilitating Experiential Learning in Quality Improvement
In this course, we’ll provide a roadmap that will help you engage trainees in experiential learning at the point of care.
- GME 205: Aligning Graduate Medical Education with Organizational Quality & Safety Goals
In this course, we’ll present innovative strategies that training programs around the country are using to engage residents in institution-wide quality improvement and patient safety efforts.
Dental Care
- DQA 101: Improving Dental Care with the Model for Improvement
In this unique Open School online course developed in close partnership with the Dental Quality Alliance (DQA) — you’ll learn how to use quantitative and qualitative feedback to evaluate the quality of services in your practice, both clinical and operational, and use that feedback to drive toward meaningful change for you and your patients.
*A micro-credential shows proof of completion for a series of courses from an accredited learning institution. They let employers and your professional network know that you have proficiency in a subject area. You can reference this micro-credential on your resume or CV as “Safety and Quality Improvement Micro-Credential, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, (Date of completion).”
Note: Subscriptions will not auto-renew. We will contact you when your subscription is approaching expiration. Scholarships may be available in cases of financial hardship.
