This article is an excellent read! Patient safety culture and patient safety are the buzzwords these days, but what are some actions to help you improve your patient safety culture?
- First, understand the culture of your organization. This is truly the foundation for prioritizing patient safety.
- Involve your patients and their family members as active participants in their care. This helps increase their health literacy, which contributes to improved patient outcomes.
- Reinforce that reporting events is necessary so you can continually evaluate and improve systems----not to provide fuel to blame the healthcare providers. Providing a user-friendly reporting system that is integrated into your organization’s daily processes will increase the number of reported events and unsafe conditions.
To sum it up: “In the long run, patient and workforce safety will not only be a moral imperative but will likely be critical to sustainability and essential to delivering on value.” (Gary Kaplan, MD)
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