Question

What mechanisms are required to create an organizational culture that fosters safety? In your opinion, which mechanism is the most important?

Answer 1

Mechanisms required to create an organizational culture that fosters safety:

1. Practice Standardize workplace, equipment, supplies and processes.
2. Establish constraints that encourage medical professionals to do the right thing ( e.g.. provide an electronic medical record chart that provides visual cues to accurately chart a patients information).
3. Reduce reliance on memory and other weak aspects of cognition.
4. Foster robust communication with patients relatives to encourage a comprehensive understanding of the problems associated with patient safety. Communication failures always leads to preventable patient harm events.
5. Conduct training for medical professionals so that they are well equipped to perform their responsiblities.
6. Plan interdisciplinary team training programmes and collaboration on areas such as patient care simulation.
7. Ensure that leaders in the organization continually contribute to the process of improving quality.
8. Build an organ8zational culture that strikes a balance between fairness and accountability and is conducive to ongoing quality improvement.
9. Collate patient safety data, monitor and evaluate errors, and implement methods to reduce them.

According to me, training of medical professionals from time to time will keep them updated and well equipped to perform their responsiblities keeping patients safety at the top.