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Education

Develop and enhance skills to address complex healthcare challenges and ensure patient safety.

Comprehensive training to navigate tough challenges

ECRI’s education programs equip healthcare professionals with the knowledge and skills needed to advance a systems approach to safety. Led by certified experts across multiple disciplines, our courses support learners at every experience level and provide practical strategies for preventing harm and improving safety outcomes. Participants gain actionable insights in key areas such as casual analysis of harm events and near misses, human factors and systems design, medication safety, and just culture, empowering participants to enhance patient care and safety.

Education, when you need it

We offer on-demand e-learning courses in patient safety and risk management, available anytime through our Learning Management System, with self-registration and usage reporting for easy access and tracking. Additionally, we collaborate with your organization to design in-person or virtual events tailored to your needs.

Our education programs support your journey toward Total Systems Safety, a framework that integrates clinical, operational, and safety functions to build a more resilient healthcare system. By applying human-centered principles and promoting a strong just culture, we help organizations develop the competencies needed to drive continuous improvement and elevate patient and workforce well-being.

Streamlined Learning Tracks

We have reorganized our educational offerings into four focused tracks — designed so busy healthcare professionals can achieve safety competency faster. Each offering is led by certified experts in a wide array of disciplines and are structured to equip your team in their journey to achieving total systems safety. Learners from all levels of experience will gain new knowledge of strategies to prevent patient harm.

Value Proposition

Lead organizational transformation by making data-driven safety decisions that reduce preventable harm, improve outcomes, protect organizational reputation, and create competitive advantage. Prevent events, investigate events, identify system failures, and design effective solutions. Transform intuition into systematic risk mitigation while building a resilient, psychologically safe culture.

Core Learning Outcomes

  • Lead application of systems thinking to reduce preventable harm, identify organizational risks, and guide strategic safety priorities.
  • Establish and model just culture framework across the enterprise.
  • Oversee the use of safety tools such as proactive risk assessments/root cause analysis (RCA)/common cause analysis/healthcare failure modes and effects analysis to drive actionable improvements, prioritize initiatives, and allocate resources.
  • Create and lead strategies for robust system design and continuous learning to advance safety and reliability.

Target Audience

  • CMO, CNO, Chief Quality & Safety Officer, Patient Safety Officer, System Director/VP of Safety/Quality/Risk, Medical Director for Quality/Safety, Service-Line Chiefs, Department Chairs, Patient Safety Specialists, Quality/PI Specialists, Risk Managers, Clinical Risk Specialists, RCA Facilitators, Nurse Managers, Clinical Operations Managers, Improvement Advisors, Quality Program Managers

Value Proposition

Become the medication safety expert your organization depends on to prevent medication errors, design safer medication systems, and lead evidence-based improvements. Master ISMP best practices and frameworks to transform medication use processes across the continuum of care.

Core Learning Outcomes

  • Apply evidence-based medication safety principles and ISMP best practices to identify and mitigate risks across the medication use process.
  • Implement systems-based approaches to medication error prevention, high-alert medication management, and technology optimization.
  • Conduct medication-focused incident investigations and proactive risk assessments to drive system improvements.
  • Lead medication safety initiatives using national standards, benchmarking data, and emerging technologies.
  • Establish just culture principles within pharmacy operations and interdisciplinary medication safety teams.

Target Audience

  • Pharmacists, Medication Safety Officers, Pharmacy Directors, Pharmacy Managers, Medication Safety Coordinators, Pharmacy Quality Specialists, Ambulatory Pharmacy Leaders, Clinical Pharmacy Coordinators

Value Proposition

Protect yourself, your patients, and your team. Speak up about safety concerns without fear, contribute to safety initiatives, and support colleagues after difficult events. Build confidence in daily practice.

Core Learning Outcomes

  • Apply systems thinking to identify local improvement opportunities and participate in redesign efforts to increase reliability and reduce preventable harm.
  • Apply just culture expectations in daily practice and event reporting to support fairness and psychological safety.
  • Actively contribute to safety by recognizing risks, sharing observations, and supporting team-based analysis and decision-making.

Target Audience

  • All healthcare staff, clinical or not clinical. Including but not limited to: Staff Nurse, Physician, Advanced Practice Provider, Respiratory Therapist, Lab/Radiology Tech, Medical Assistant, Front Desk Associate, Social Work, Case Management, Pastoral Care, Patient Experience staff, All Clinical Support Staff

Core Courses

Course Name Format
Healthcare is a System On-demand
Workplace Justice for Staff On-demand
Psychological First Aid Virtual

Value Proposition

Transform from technology implementer to patient safety guardian—prevent harm at the intersection of technology and care delivery, ensuring every device and procurement decision enhances safety.

Core Learning Outcomes

  • Apply human factors engineering principles to evaluate, select, and design technologies and procurement processes that enhance patient safety.
  • Implement just culture principles to foster psychological safety and accountability in technical environments.
  • Conduct or participate in incident investigations using standardized frameworks to identify root causes.
  • Create strategies for robust system design and continuous learning to advance safety and minimize risk.

Target Audience

  • Director of Clinical Engineering, Biomedical Engineer, Supply Chain Director, Value Analysis Lead, Procurement Manager, Manufacturing Technician, Quality Assurance Specialist, Manufacturing Engineer

Core Courses

Course Name Format
Recommended for: Director of Clinical Engineering, Biomedical Engineer, Supply Chain Director, Value Analysis Lead, Procurement Manager, Clinical Sourcing Manager, Perioperative Supply Chain Leader
Healthcare is a System On-demand
Human Factors Engineering for Medication Procurement Safety In-person
Workplace Justice for Staff On-demand
Healthcare Incident Management and Investigation On-demand
Recommended for: Manufacturing Technician, Quality Assurance Specialist, Manufacturing Engineer
Healthcare is a System On-demand
Human Factors Engineering for Medical Device Design and Development In-person
Workplace Justice for Staff On-demand

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Continuing education credits

Applications for continuing education credits will be made as activities are scheduled. Activities in previous years have received California State Nursing contact hours; credits by the AAMI Credentials Institute (ACI); contact hours of Continuing Education Credit toward fulfillment of the requirements of ASHRM designations of FASHRM (Fellow) and DFASHRM (Distinguished Fellow) and toward CPHRM renewal; patient safety CE hours by the Certification Board for Professionals in Patient Safety; and CPHQ continuing education credits by the National Association for Healthcare Quality.

ECRI has been reviewed by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME®) and awarded Accreditation through March 2027 as a provider of continuing medical education (CME) for physicians. Accreditation in the ACCME system seeks to assure the medical community and the public that ECRI delivers education that is relevant to clinicians’ needs, evidence-based, evaluated for its effectiveness, and independent of commercial influence.

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