Question

Discuss Culture of Safety:

What values ensure a culture of safety?

How can healthcare facilities establish a culture of safety?

What is the nurse's role in maintaining a culture of safety?

Answer 1

1.The values that ensure a culture of safety includes acknowledgements of the high risk nature of an organisation activities and the determination to acheive consistently safe operations.A blame free environment where individuals are able to report errors or near misses.Encouragement of collaboration across ranks and disciplines to seek solutions to patient safety problems.Organisational commitment of resources to address safety concerns.

2.Healthcare facilities can establish a culture of safety by taking measures such as education,teamwork training,executive walk rounds and establishing unit based safety teams.Also starting a rapid response team and structured communications.Conducting patient safety leadership walkrounds,creating a reporting system,designating a patient safety officer and also re-enact real adverse events from your hospital.

3.The nurse's role in maintaining culture of safety mostly depends on patient safety with high quality safety care.Much of the work defining patient safety and practices that prevent harm on negative outcomes of care,and also critical to the surveillance and coordination that reduce such adverse outcomes.