Summary Of Leadership And Patient Safety Culture

In the article “Leadership and patient safety culture” by Kawamoto, the primary interest in health care and in that there is great concern for medications errors, medical errors and error in reporting these facts and findings. Patient safety goes hand in hand with high quality care and patient satisfaction. As a health care provider one must want to view their practice as safe and providing the highest quality of care. What is considering high quality care in any heath care setting? Do we have the tools and resources needed to provide the best possible care to patients?
Furthermore patient safety culture is a trending topic for leadership and is often understood as the driving force for best practice. Leaders, most often are well equipped to established methods to improve patient care and other services to meet patients and their family’s needs. Many leaders are recognizing the importance of practicing safe and quality care in their organization. Leaders should acknowledge the high risk natures of their organizations procedures and determine to achieve safe practices.
Safety culture is most likely generated by surveys of health care providers of all levels.
As leaders can you established zero tolerance for patient safety. Can you distinguish between human error, at-risk behavior and shortcuts, can we provide a no blame approach. Leadership should be actively engaged in improving patient safety by, performance improvement teams and best practices guidelines. Patient safety culture is a universal problem for many hospitals and the perception of safety culture can exist in any organization that provides service to the community. Organizational leadership must be deeply involved and attentive to the front-line personnel practices and able to provide additional training and resources. Leadership must ramp up the focus on patient safety and quality improvement to ensure safety of their patients in their
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Patient safety cultures start at the highest level of healthcare and leadership must stay committed to their organization. However, Chobanuk, addressed training, supervision and communication to be a part of improving patient safety culture. Patient safety culture must be considered the first thing you think about when you come to work and the last thing you think about before going home. Leaders must move from the meetings and make themselves visible on the units, this in contrast shows staff members and patient’s leadership is committed to patient safety.
In conclusion, patient safety culture involves developing the necessary action plans and to close the gap to improve quality and safety for the patients. Leadership must encourage the staff to speak up and ensure a safe environment. Leadership must center patient safety culture around ways to improve systematic flaws, rather than individual incompetence’s. Hopefully leadership considers patient safety culture as the driving force to high quality care and safe competent treatment. Culture of safety begins with Leadership; therefore it is a difficult task to identify the precise methods of what makes a healthcare organization safe. Leadership is the key component to nurturing and fostering a culture safe organization.