Clinical Safety and organizational culture

What is a workaround that you have seen used?
Analyze why nurses may feel tempted to choose this risk-taking behavior over behavior that conforms to a safety of culture.

  1. What are the current patient safety characteristics of your organizational culture?
    • Identify at least three aspects of your culture that you would recommend changing with regard to patient safety, and suggest strategies for change.
  2. What is a workaround that you have seen used?
    • Analyze why nurses may feel tempted to choose this risk-taking behavior over behavior that conforms to a safety of culture.

Be sure to make reference to the week's readings in your response. Please allow neither your initial post nor any of your replies to exceed one paragraph in length.

After you have made your own post, you will be able to see those of your classmates. Reply to at least one classmate's post.

This activity will be graded according to the grading rubric for discussions in the course syllabus.