Description: This webinar will focus on situation awareness among healthcare teams and its role in
preventing harm to patients and staff. Through the lens of unrecognized clinical deterioration—a
common source of preventable harm to hospitalized patients— this presentation will review how
principles from organizational behavior can be applied in healthcare settings to drive systems learning
and improvement; mitigate threats to patient and staff safety; and prevent harm.

Learning Objectives: By the end of this presentation the participant will be able to:
1. Define situation awareness and its role in preventing harm to patients and staff
2. Describe the concept of team reflexivity and its potential applications in the healthcare setting
3. Identify how clinical event debriefing contributes to keeping patients and staff safe
4. Describe potential threats to harm prevention posed by dynamic healthcare teams
5. Apply organizational behavior principles to harm prevention practices at their institution

Speaker: Meghan Galligan, MD, MSHP is a pediatric hospitalist with formal training and experience in
patient safety, improvement science, and health services research. Dr. Galligan is passionate about
understanding how healthcare team behaviors impact patient care and outcomes in order to guide
design of resilient operational systems that can keep patients safe from harm. She completed her
residency and fellowship training at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, where she serves as the
Physician Lead for Patient Safety Operations and co-leads an enterprise-wide initiative to prevent
unrecognized clinical deterioration—a major source of preventable harm to hospitalized patients.

Cost: FREE for 2022 PAHQ members & $25 for non-members
*Attending this presentation is worth 1 CPHQ Continuing Education (CE) credit. Webinar fees go toward
NAHQ fees to offer credits.
Register here: https://pahq-winter-2022.eventbrite.com