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Barbara Watson, JD, RN, PhD (ABD) Health Law/Psychology
Barrister, Solicitor, Registered Nurse (retired)
HEALTHCARE BACKGROUND



a seasoned medicolegal professional with over 20,000 teaching hours to her credit and an Ontario Patient Safety Leadership Network member, a non-practising health lawyer, past hospital Director of CQI/RM/Education with decades of hospital leadership and patient safety experience, hospital and university instructor, moderator of the Ontario Healthcare Risk Management Network newsgroup, supervising research (e.g., CPSI Safety Competency ‘Patient Safety Culture’), and sourcing legal information not legal advice for healthcare facilities, their Boards and their personnel

Educator/Project Manager/Consultant/Educator
On-Site or Remote

COURSES NO LONGER AVAILABLE – BACKGROUND INFORMATION ONLY

Patient/Resident Safety, Enterprise Risk Management and Continuous Quality Improvement Course (Patient/Resident Safety Plan for Healthcare Facilities & Systems) (offered at two levels: basic and advanced)

  • Creating a coherent portfolio that addresses and links quality, patient safety and enterprise risk management within a CQI framework that fits the specific structure of the contracting facility

Failure Modes and Effects Analysis Course (for Healthcare Facilities & Systems) (offered at two levels: general and individualized)

  • Identifying the steps in a process that may fail, along with the causes and effects of those failures, and taking steps to prevent those failures, including program-specific (department-specific) process chosen by participants

Risk Management Course (for Healthcare Facilities)

  • Identifying, analyzing and controlling/preventing risk, including program-specific (department-specific) risk chosen by participants

Patient/Resident Safety, Quality, Risk Management Course (for Healthcare Boards of Directors)

  • Defining fiduciary and corporate governance obligations

Healthcare Law Course (offered at two levels: basic and advanced)

  • Outlining health law essentials and their legal tests

Project Management Course for Healthcare Facilities (offered at two levels: general and individualized)

  • Planning and managing various healthcare projects
  • Special emphasis on Accreditation Canada Qmentum or other topics on request

Accreditation Canada Qmentum Project Manager

  • Complete project management from inception to completion
  • Partial project management consulting/assistance

General Healthcare Project Manager

  • Complete project management from inception to completion
  • Partial project management consulting/assistance

Patient Safety/Quality/Risk/Privacy Consulting

  • Creating a coherent portfolio among these various areas
  • Project management and/or individualized assistance