Failure Modes and Effects Analysis

Course Content and Objectives

COURSE NO LONGER AVAILABLE – BACKGROUND INFORMATION ONLY

Failure Modes and Effects Analysis
(for Healthcare Facilities and Systems)
8-hour course, usually taught 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
16-hour advanced course, usually taught in two 1-day sessions

Contents

Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) Process Overview

Accreditation Canada (AC) and FMEA

What is FMEA?
- Definitions and Tools
Why Conduct FMEA?

Standards and Quality Dimensions
Questionnaires, Instruments and Indicators
Patient/Resident Safety Areas and Goals
Required Organizational Practices and Tests for Compliance
- FMEA Test for Compliance

FMEA and Adverse Events: Selecting the Process and Defining the Scope

High Risk Process
- Selection, Analysis and Identification of Improvements
- Implementation and Documentation

Benefits of FMEA

FMEA in Quality Context

FMEA Step-by-Step

How to Identify Failure Modes
- Potential Effects of Failures
- Potential Causes of Failures
Prioritizing Failure Modes by Risk Priority Number
- Severity
- Probability
- Detectability
Single Point Weaknesses
FMEA Goal: Redesigning Your Process to Avoid Failure Modes
- Checklists, Force Functions, Standardization, etc
Action Plans
- Who, What, Where, When and How
Applying FMEA
Individualized Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (Topics Chosen by Participants)
- Using the FMEA Tool

Objectives

Upon completion of this course in full, participants will have:
Completed their FMEA (if they choose the 16-hour course)
Demonstrated knowledge of and be able to explain FMEA theory and practice as it impacts on the health care system (both courses)
Applied critical thinking skills to selected FMEA-oriented healthcare hypotheticals in order to obtain, interpret and analyze the information contained therein (both courses)
Demonstrated an ability to apply standards and regulations to practical healthcare scenarios that could benefit from FMEA (both courses)