Situational Awareness Vital Insights (SAVI)

What is it?

SAVI has been developed by a team of clinicians and human factors experts to help all staff working with patients to be more situationally aware.  There are four films which each focus on a high risk area where good situational awareness is central to patient safety.

How does it work?

We have filmed four scenarios of high risk situations in which errors are common, these are:

  • Prescribing high risk medicine;
  • Handover/safety briefing;
  • Deteriorating patient;
  • Misdiagnosis

The films are aimed at healthcare professionals who have direct patient contact, but the films could also be used as part of undergraduate training for nurses and doctors.

The overall learning objectives for the resource are:

  • Gain an understanding of situational awareness
  • Be aware of the importance of situational awareness for patient safety
  • Understand the value of the team in sharing information to ensure good situational awareness
  • Be aware of some of the factors that can reduce situational awareness e.g. lack of clinical knowledge, high workload, poor teamwork, poor communication, information overload, problems with supervision, negative emotions.

How can I access SAVI?

This resource is free to NHS and Social Care colleagues across Yorkshire and Humber but organisations will need to submit a list of names to the team, who will then organise usernames and passwords, as required, in order to access the tool.  For organisations outside of Yorkshire and the Humber please contact us to discuss options.

For a trial period, access to SAVI can be offered to individuals.  Please contact us for login details [email protected]

If you are a manager wanting to make SAVI available to your staff please contact us to discuss cohort access [email protected]

SAVI is also available as a DVD with brief training instructions. To use this format in your training please contact Rebecca Lawton, [email protected]

You may also be interested in our Introduction to Patient Safety module  which can be used to complement SAVI in induction or training for existing staff.

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