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Accessibility & LanguageMSc, PDipSc (Healthcare Simulation and Patient Safety)
College of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences, School of Medicine
Course Code: MSC-HSP; PGD-HSP | Mode of study: Online
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Course Overview
This Online-Course is ineligible for student study visa or ILEP, but international students may undertake this programme remotely.
Both the Diploma and Masters' courses in Healthcare Simulation and Patient Safety are on-line/distance learning courses designed to accommodate the busy healthcare provider or simulation centre team member. Healthcare simulation is the modern way to educate healthcare providers to achieve high performance and to improve patient safety. It encompasses manikin based training for teamworking, task trainers for procedural skills, simulated persons for communication skills and virtual /augmented reality.
By completing the Diploma, you will learn how to use simulation in your own practice to deliver better safer healthcare. You will also learn how to use healthcare simulation for quality improvement, systems and process testing and for facilities planning. By completing the Masters programme you will go on to understand how to use simulation for research and how it can support research.
If you are a healthcare provider, involved in healthcare education and research or have an interest in patient safety, then this course will be important for you. A qualification in Healthcare Simulation and Patient Safety will help you to achieve your career goals in healthcare and simulation.
What makes this course unique ...
- Fully distance learning designed to allow for flexible learing
- Broad course content suitable for all healthcare professions, simulation staff and anyone interested in patient safety
- The final thesis is prepared as a paper for publication and is supported by an experienced group of mentors with a track record in research in the simulation and patient safety space.
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Ms. Linda Ní Chianáin | University Lecturer, School of Nursing and Midwifery, NUIG
An excellent inter-disciplinary course that I would recommend to any healthcare professional. It challenges your critical, analytical and creative side from examining current practice, developing scenarios to testing and modifying simulators. The course can provide you with the necessary skills and credibility to develop nursing and midwifery simulation further at clinical, undergraduate and postgraduate level thus enhancing patient safety.
Scott Mullin | Paramedic Program Coordinator, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
The program offers relevant skills from knowledgeable and experienced simulation champions! Simulation has been a vital educational tool in my career and the NUI Galway Masters of Science Healthcare Simulation and Patient safety programme has enhanced my ability to teach students more effectively! The ability to learn with students from various medical professions was extremely useful, an invaluable experience!
Kiren Reddy | Specialist registrar in anaesthesia, Ireland.
This course has encouraged me to re-evaluate how we deliver medical education and how we provide care to our patients. It has given me the tools to effect positive change in my workplace.
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