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Certified Professional in Patient Safety (CPPS)™
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CPPS: Certified Professional in Patient Safety
The Certified Professional in Patient SafetyTM credential (CPPS) is earned by professionals who have demonstrated a high level of proficiency in the core standards of patient safety. This credential is awarded through a thorough examination covering four patient safety domains:
- Culture
- Systems Thinking, Human Factors Engineering, and Design
- Safety Risks and Responses
- Performance Measurement, Analysis, Improvement and Monitoring
More than 7,000 professionals have earned the CPPS credential, representing all 50 US states and 32 countries.
Download the CPPS Brochure for additional information
The Certified Professional in Patient Safety (CPPS)TM program is fully accredited by the National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA). Accreditation from NCCA, the Institute for Credentialing Excellence (ICE) 's accrediting body provides independent affirmation that the CPPS program achieves the highest quality standards in professional certification. NCCA uses a peer review process to establish accreditation standards, evaluate compliance with these standards, recognize programs that demonstrate compliance, and serve as a resource on quality certification.
CPPS Review Courses
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Live webinar February 5–6, 2025 (12 PM – 4 PM ET)
On Demand
You can also take the CPPS Review Course on demand whenever you like.
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement designates this internet enduring activity for a maximum of 7 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. This activity may also be applicable for other professions that accept AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.
In support of improving patient care, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. This program is approved to provide 7 credits for physicians, nurses, pharmacy, and Certified Professional in Patient Safety (CPPS) recertification.
CPPS Informational Session
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CPPS Scholarships
The application window for this year's scholarships is now closed.
We anticipate offering scholarships again next year (May 2025). If you would like to be notified when the next scholarship window opens, please submit your email through this form.
Scholarships include full coverage for the fees of:
- Online CPPS Review Course
- CPPS Practice Exam
- CPPS Credentialing Exam
Any professional working in or around health care who is able to demonstrate need and meets the exam eligibility requirements is encouraged to apply.
Certified Professional in Patient Safety (CPPS)™ Credential
7,000+
Les professionnels ont obtenu le titre de CPPS
50
États américains représentés
32
Pays représentés
Why Certification Is Important
This professional certification program establishes core standards for the field of patient safety, benchmarks requirements necessary for health care professionals, and sets an expected proficiency level.
For professionals, the CPPS credential provides those working in patient safety a means to demonstrate their proficiency and skill in the discipline
For organizations, requiring the CPPS credential provides a way for employers to validate a potential candidate’s patient safety knowledge and skill base, critical competencies for today’s health care challenges
Additional compelling reasons to earn your CPPS:
- 79% of health care professionals who have earned the CPPS told us that this credential helped them to improve patient care at their organization
- You can prepare for the CPPS exam — and take the actual exam — virtually, from wherever you are
- Adding this credential to your CV makes your commitment to — and education about — patient safety visible
- Since earning their CPPS credential, 81% of titleholders have led organization or system-wide initiatives, leading critical improvements
Who Should Consider Certification
- Physicians
- Nurses
- Pharmacists
- Patient Safety Professionals
- Quality and Risk Management Professionals
- Health Care Executives
- Non-Clinical Health Care Professionals
- All other health care professionals with the requisite background
Requirements for Certification
Candidates for the CPPS credential are those who include patient safety practices as an integral component of current or future professional responsibilities. Candidates must also possess academic and professional experience at one of the following levels:
- Baccalaureate degree or higher, plus three years of experience (includes time spent in clinical rotations and residency programs) in a health care setting or with a provider of services to the health care industry
OR
- Associate degree or equivalent plus five years of experience (includes time spent in clinical rotations) in a health care setting or with a provider of services to the health care industry
CBPPS randomly audits a limited number of applications per year to confirm eligibility requirements are met. If your application is selected for audit, please be prepared to provide documentation attesting to your education and experience.
Additional Information
Karen Harris, MSN-MHA, infirmière autorisée, CPHQ, CPPS
Vice President of Quality, StoneSprings Hospital Center
Vice President of Quality, StoneSprings Hospital Center
“My CPPS credential is a testimony to the competency I have to be a leader in my hospital’s patient safety efforts, and one that I proudly wear.”
Roméo Miguel Alonzo, MAN, infirmier, CPHQ, CPXP, CPPS
Quality Specialist, Qatar Red Crescent Society
Quality Specialist, Qatar Red Crescent Society
“My certification will help me move forward with my career in the field of patient safety. This prestigious designation will put me in the vast world of ever-changing and challenging, yet fulfilling patient safety movement.”
Lisa Kuprel, infirmière autorisée, MSN, CPHQ, CPPS
Quality Analyst, Maui Medical Center
Quality Analyst, Maui Medical Center
“I proudly wear the CPPS credential. This credential demonstrates to colleagues, customers, and patients my extensive knowledge and commitment to patient safety. It offers me the ability to be a respected leader in the health care field.”
Denise Peterson, infirmière autorisée, MMH
Senior Director Quality and Patient Safety, Cambridge Health Alliance
Senior Director Quality and Patient Safety, Cambridge Health Alliance
“I am thrilled to have the CPPS recognition to help promote the importance of patient safety as a leading factor for focusing the safety of the care we provide and ensure patients are aware of that importance to us.”
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Deliver the Right Care, in the Right Setting, at the Right Time
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The High Stakes of Suboptimal Flow
Optimizing patient flow throughout the hospital is essential to ensuring safe, high-quality, patient-centered care and capacity for growing and aging populations. Providing timely access to appropriate sites of care and optimizing hospital flow are critical levers that increase value for patients, clinicians, and health care systems. Patient and clinician experience is strongly influenced by the efficiency and effectiveness of care reflective of hospital flow.
Poorly managed flow has critical implications, such as:
- Delaying treatments
- Failing to provide the right care, in the right place, at the right time
- Putting patients at risk for potential harm and undesired outcomes
- Increasing the burden on clinicians and contributing to moral distress
Diversions, long waits, and delays in the emergency department (ED) are a hospital-wide issue, not solely an ED issue. Waits are often the result of ED beds being occupied by patients waiting for admission to the hospital (known as boarding). Lack of inpatient capacity can also result in patients boarding in the post-anesthesia care unit (PACU) and being managed in "off-service" units.
While many hospital leaders are aware of the problem, they may struggle with developing the strategies needed to address these complex issues.
Agenda
This program consists of 10 live virtual sessions from 10:00 AM – 1:30 PM ET.
Participants must attend all live sessions to receive a certificate of completion and credits for this program.
Continuing Education
In support of improving patient care, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the health care team.
Continuing education credits for this program are still being finalized and will be updated shortly.
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement designates this blended learning activity for a maximum of 30 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. This activity may also be applicable for other professions that accept AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.
As a result of this program, attendees will be able to:
- Assess the current state of patient flow and determine major opportunities for improvement.
- Analyze organizational capability, change concepts, and successful interventions for creating a sustainable system for system-wide hospital flow.
- Identify the variety of hospital-wide and community strategies and approaches needed to deliver the right care in the right place and at the right time.
CE Instructions
To be eligible for a continuing education certificate, attendees must complete the online evaluation within 30 days of the continuing education activity. After this period, you will be unable to receive a certificate.
Continuing education (CE) credits will not be awarded for non-educational activities, including (but not limited to) meals, breaks, and receptions.
Disclosure: None of the planners, presenters, or staff for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
Planning Committee
- Lauren Downing, Director, Program Management, IHI
- Victoria Lewis, Marketing Manager, IHI
- Katharine Luther, RN, MPM, (retired) Vice President, IHI
- Kedar Mate, MD, President and Chief Executive Officer, IHI
- Patricia McGaffigan, RN, Vice President, IHI
- Frederick Ryckman, MD, (retired) Vice President for Medical Operations, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
- Patricia Rutherford, MS, (retired) Vice President, IHI
- Lloyd Provost, Statistician, Senior Improvement Advisor, Associates in Process Improvement
- Marianne Smith, MAS-PSHQ, BSN, RN, CPPS, Project Director, IHI
- Cindy Betti-Sullivan, Senior Director, Program Design, IHI
- Jane Taylor, EdD, Improvement Advisor, IHI
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- Click on the "My IHI" link on the top of this page.
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- Visit Education.ihi.org and log in with your MyIHI credentials.
- Click "Go to Learning Center" and then click "Launch" next to your course name.
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Regular Rate: USD $5,500 per person
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Scholarships
IHI is pleased to offer a limited number of free and 25% scholarships to assist with program registration costs for those working in:
- Independent, United States Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) that are not affiliated with a hospital or health system
- Critical Access Hospitals
- Independent practices with fewer than 20 physicians
- Hospitals with fewer than 50 beds
- Members of America's Essential Hospitals
- 501(c)(3) organization with a defined operating budget of less than $5 million, serving community-based populations
- Ministries of Health
- Faith-based health institutions
- Skilled Nursing Facilities
All Scholarships are reviewed on an individual basis. If multiple individuals from the same organization wish to apply for a scholarship, everyone must submit an application. Group discounts are also available, see information above.
To ensure equal distribution of funds, all scholarships applications are reviewed using the same scoring criteria. All awarded amounts are final.
Cancellations, Refunds, Substitutions
Registration Fee of $2,950 or more
- Payments: Full payment is due 60 days before the start of the program. If payment in full is not received within 60 days prior to the program start date, IHI will notify you and cancel your registration.
- Credit card payments: Enter your credit card information online during the registration process, or call the IHI Customer Experience Department to process payment over the phone.
- Check payments: Please mail a copy of the invoice with your check made payable to IHI.
- Cancellations: For cancellations made within 45 days before the start of a program: Registration fees are fully refundable if a written request is received by info@ihi.org on or before 45 days before the start of the program.
- Refunds: IHI will issue all refunds in the original payment type (credit card or check) within 30 days. Registrations received after 45 days or less before the start of the program are not refundable.
- Substitutions: One attendee may be substituted for another at any time by calling the IHI Customer Experience Department or emailing info@ihi.org.
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Continuing Education
In support of improving patient care, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the health care team. Continuing education credits for this program are still being finalized and will be updated shortly.
CE Instructions
To be eligible for a continuing education certificate, attendees must complete the online evaluation within 30 days of the continuing education activity. After this period, you will be unable to receive a certificate.
Continuing education credits will not be awarded for non-educational activities, including (but not limited to) meals, breaks and receptions.
Already attended?
To view continuing education (CE) credits and session materials:
- Click on the "My IHI" link on the top of this page
- Once you are logged in, click on the "Credits" tab to see CE information.
- Click on the "My Participation" tab and then the button that says "My Materials" to see course materials.
Fees & Scholarships
Registration Rates
Regular Rate: $549 per person
This rate includes all video modules released throughout the online course, all-learner calls, and the use of all tools and resources.
Scholarships
IHI is pleased to offer a limited number of scholarships to assist with program registration costs for those working in:
- Independent, United States Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) that are not affiliated with a hospital or health system
- Critical Access Hospitals
- Independent practices with fewer than 20 physicians
- Hospitals with fewer than 50 beds
- Members of America's Essential Hospitals
- 501(c)(3) organization with a defined operating budget of less than $5 million, serving community-based populations
- Ministries of Health
- Faith-based health institutions
- Skilled Nursing Facilities
All Scholarships are reviewed on an individual basis. If multiple individuals from the same organization wish to apply for a scholarship, each individual must submit an application. Group discounts are also available, see information above.
To ensure equal distribution of funds, all scholarships applications are reviewed using the same scoring criteria. All awarded amounts are final.
Cancellations, Substitutions, and Refunds
- Payments: Full payment is due at the time of registration.
- Credit card payments: Enter your credit card information online during the registration process, or call the IHI Customer Experience Department to process payment over the phone.
- Check payments: If you need to make a payment by check, please call the IHI Customer Experience Department.
- Cancellations: For cancelations made within one day before the start of the program: Registration fees are fully refundable if a written request is received by info@ihi.org on or before one day before the start of the program.
- Refunds: IHI will issue all refunds in the original payment type (credit card or check) within 30 days. Registrations received one day before the start of the program are not refundable.
- Substitutions: One attendee may be substituted for another at any time by calling the IHI Customer Experience Department or emailing info@ihi.org.
Our Guarantee to You
If for any reason you are not completely satisfied that your attendance in an IHI educational program is a valuable experience, IHI will gladly refund your registration fee per the policies noted above. Please note that due to unforeseeable circumstances, last-minute changes in program titles, speakers, or presentations may be unavoidable.