Patient Safety Culture

The purpose of this post is to share three organizational culture resources that address organizational culture and patient safety proactively. My three references of choice are Measuring Safety Culture in Healthcare: A Case for Accurate Diagnosis by Flin, Organizational Readiness Assessment Checklist by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the Patient Safety Climate in 92 US Hospitals: Differences by Work Area and Discipline by Singer et al articles. In order for organizational culture and patient safety to be effective, an evidence-based teamwork system focused on improving patient outcomes need to be in place (AHRQ, 2013). The TeamSTEPPS national model stood out for me in that it’s a national model designed to help healthcare professionals improve

Effective healthcare organizations often look at safety culture in areas of systems, environments, knowledge, workflow, tools and other stressors affecting behaviors (Carroll, 2009). Incorporating and utilizing benchmarks (or measurements) are proactive tools to institute proactively to forecast and develop solutions for potential situations and circumstances. The Measuring Safety Culture in Healthcare: A case for Accurate Diagnosis by Flin is a resource that stood out to me as well. The Measuring Safety Culture in Healthcare article addressed concerns regarding safety of patients in the U.S. healthcare systems. The article was written to bring forth concerns in safety management techniques that are adopted in the health care industries. The article stated how the use of safety climate questionnaires surveying workforce perceptions and attitudes towards worker and patient safety in healthcare organizations were important. The article found that many psychometric standards were not in place to address healthcare safety climate measures prior to this