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Articles & Ideas on Employee & Patient Safety
Perspectives articles offers expert insight into employee and patient safety performance improvement.
Case Study of a Mid-western Healthcare System Part 2
This is the 2nd of a series of reports documenting a patient safety initiative currently underway at a small mid-western healthcare system. In the first report, we discussed the background and assessment work undertaken by the organization and how this shaped the implementation now in progress. Briefly, the assessment uncovered a relatively low level of reciprocity in the organization's culture (especially among three job codes), a large variability in safety leadership scores, and significant opportunities in medication error prevention. Based on these findings the organization decided to focus initially on medication error reduction in a target population of the organization and on building a reciprocity culture and strong safety climate.
This is the 2nd of a series of reports documenting a patient safety initiative currently underway at a small mid-western healthcare system. In the first report, we discussed the background and assessment work undertaken by the organization and how this shaped the implementation now in progress. Briefly, the assessment uncovered a relatively low level of reciprocity in the organization's culture (especially among three job codes), a large variability in safety leadership scores, and significant opportunities in medication error prevention. Based on these findings the organization decided to focus initially on medication error reduction in a target population of the organization and on building a reciprocity culture and strong safety climate.
Feb 4, 2012 | Thomas R. Krause, Ph.D. and John H. Hidley, M.D. | read full article >
This is the 1st of a series of reports documenting a patient safety initiative currently underway at a small mid-western healthcare system. In this first report, we detail the background and assessment work undertaken by the organization to date and the implementation design based on this assessment...
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No senior leader in healthcare can afford to ignore the challenges of patient and employee safety. Indeed, we would assert that, while discharging this responsibility in the complex settings of clinical care delivery may seem daunting, there can be no more fundamental responsibility for senior leade...
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In "The Magnificent Seven" (MGM, 1960), Yul Brynner and Steve McQueen play two gunmen who improbably take on the protection of a small, poor Mexican farming village from a band of marauders. As in the predecessor film "The Seven Samurai," (1954), the loose band of vagabond protec...
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In the six years since the release of the Institute of Medicine report To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System, there has been a growing awareness of the nature of the challenge faced in healthcare. Safe, accident-free, and reliable performance in care delivery is becoming recognize...
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Keeping employees safe requires putting into place reliable systems that are operating well and are used consistently across the organization. Employees must communicate and collaborate with each other, across departments and between shifts, and even when their immediate interests may be in confl ic...
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