Question

Consider how you can be a champion for patient safety in your organization

Answer 1

The clinical champion role are central to the sucessful implementation of patient safety practice.They are engaged in a number of core activities which includes educatin,advocacy,relationship building and boundary spanning.improving patient safety requires change at multiple levels of the health care system from entire organizational structures down to the individual behaviours.Some of the barriers for achieving successful change are

• Certain safety practices requires change in behaviour or high levels of task standardization that may limt the extent to which health care professionals can excercise discretion in their work.
• Concerns exist around the dislosure and reporting of medical errors.
• Many patient safety interventions are team based ,but most health care organizations lay heavy emphasis on individual performance.

if these barriers are removed i think i will be able to becomea champion for patient safety in our organization.