Key Objectives:

• Understand how to develop ‘strong’ recommendations

• Gain in-depth knowledge of how to test recommendations using PDSA cycles to understand when they work and when they fail, prior to full implementation

• Understand the methods for measuring PDSA cycles

• Know how to develop a project plan to ensure recommendations are implemented in a timely manner.

Adj Assoc Professor Bernie Harrison

MPH (Hons), Grad Cert Med Ed, RN, RM, University of Sydney School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health

Director, ACHS Improvement Academy

Bernie Harrison has over 30yrs experience in health care, as a clinician, researcher and quality and safety (Q&S) expert. She has extensive experience in designing and delivering Q&S training programs in the Asia pacific region. She trained in quality improvement and patient safety in the USA in 2001 and 2010 as a Fulbright Scholar. She has led and published a Breakthrough Collaborative (Harrison et al Vox Sanguinis 2014) in improving red cell transfusion in the elective surgical setting. She co-authored the Quality in Australian Health Care Study (MJA 1995), the most cited paper in the journal’s 100yr history. Her previous positions include: Executive Director of Hospital Performance for the National Health Performance Authority and Director in the NSW Clinical Excellence Commission.