Errors Persist Intervention

I enjoyed reading your post about core competencies. I must say that the approach through your incident report system is a great tool for healthcare professionals to reduce errors and improve patient safety. Patient safety is an essential and vital component of quality care. Yet health care providers face many challenges in today’s health care environment in trying to keep patients safe (Ballard, 2003). When this occurs, it our job to voice our concerns on what needs to be done and where to start. Hospital errors are a seemingly intractable problem and continuing threat to public health. Errors resist intervention because too often the interventions deployed fail to address the fundamental source of errors: weak organizational safety culture