Patient Quality and Safety Graduate Certificate

Gain Expertise in Patient Quality and Safety

Enhance your professional experience and your nursing or healthcare career with Southern New Hampshire University’s new online nursing certificate in Patient Quality and Safety. The 12-credit graduate certificate can serve as a great first step toward a master’s in nursing. It addresses the need in the healthcare industry for an emphasis on patient quality and safety as outlined in the Institute of Medicine’s “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health” report. Our online nursing graduate certificate in Patient Quality and Safety prepares nurses and other healthcare professionals to meet the changing needs of the 21st-century healthcare work force.

Focus on Quality Patient Care Practices

The online nursing certificate in Patient Quality and Safety provides nurses and other healthcare professionals with ways to design quality patient care practices and develop an organizational culture of patient safety. Students will focus on interprofessional teamwork, communication and collaboration, medical error science, and organizational change. Graduates of the program will have the skills to design, implement and lead a broad range of patient safety activities.

An Emphasis on Communication and Patient Care

Students in the Patient Quality and Safety online nursing certificate program will:

• Develop continuous improvement of the patient care process through analysis and measured change to current clinical programs in the inpatient and outpatient environments.
• Integrate the use of communication skills, information systems and standardized language in relation to clinical outcomes and continuous performance measures.
• Develop the research and education programs necessary to advance the national patient safety agenda.
• Create patient safety and patient care outcomes through educational programs.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of continuous improvement processes.

Progress with a Master's in Nursing Online

The online nursing certificate in Patient Quality and Safety provides an additional graduate-level credential in a high-demand area for nurses and other healthcare professionals who already hold master’s degrees. It also is ideal as a first step toward SNHU’s online master’s in nursing programs for nurses with BSN degrees.

Patient Quality and Safety Graduate Certificate Courses