Module GW4600-KP05

Duration

1 Semester

Turnus of offer

each winter semester

Credit points

5

Course of studies, specific fields and terms:

• Master in Health and Healthcare Science 2025, compulsory, Theories and methods of health care
• Master in Health and Healthcare Science 2019, compulsory, Theories and methods of health care

Classes and lectures:

• Patient Safety Indicators and Monitoring (lecture, 1 SWS)
• Specific Aspects of Patient Safety (seminar, 2 SWS)

Workload:

• 120 hours private studies and exercises
• 30 hours in-classroom work

Contents of teaching:

• Basic Concepts of Patient Safety
• Indicators of patient safety
• Causes of critical events and patient harm
• Systems thinking in organizations
• Patient/client involvement in safety-related issues
• Safety culture in healthcare
• Communication and communication as factors of patient safety
• Learning from critical events- systematic recording and evaluation

Qualification-goals/Competencies:

• Knowledge and understanding: graduates understand the links between organisational and safety culture and critical incidents
• Knowledge and understanding: graduates are familiar with the latest findings and measures aimed at improving patient safety
• Application, use and generation of knowledge: graduates are able to apply theoretical approaches to practical issues relating to patient safety
• Application, use and generation of knowledge: graduates are able to identify and analyse aspects relevant to patient safety in practice
• Communication and cooperation: graduates communicate their scientific findings on patient safety issues within a multidisciplinary context
• Communication and cooperation: graduates recognise potential safety-related conflicts when working with others and reflect on these in the context of conditions applicable across different situations
• Academic self-awareness/professionalism: graduates reflect on their own abilities and make use of their freedom to shape their work and make decisions within a scientifically grounded framework
• Academic self-understanding/professionalism: graduates justify their own professional practice using theoretical and methodological knowledge and reflect on it in the light of current evidence

Grading through:

• written exam

Responsible for this module:

• Prof. Dr. rer. medic. Katja Stahl

Teacher:

• Institute of Health Sciences
• Prof. Dr. rer. medic. Katja Stahl

Literature:

• Institute of Medicine : To err is human. Building a Safer Health System. National Academy Press Aktionsbündnis Patientensicherheit (APS) Weißbuch Patientensicherheit. Medizinisch Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft (2000)
• GVG (Hrsg) (2022) : Nationales Gesundheitsziel Patientensicherheit. /li>
• Mühlbradt T et al. : Safety-II : Neue Wege zur Patientensicherheit. Springer Gabler (2024)

Language:

• German and English skills required

Notes:

Last Updated:

12.10.2026