Enhancing safety culture and event reporting: Insights from clinicians and administrators

Abstract

Background: Although there is a growing body of literature on the effect of education strategies on the reporting rates of safety events in hospitals, less is known about what worked well and what did not work well according to those who participate in the strategies. This paper provides findings around how participants perceived a multi-pronged approach to enhancing safety culture and event reporting.

Implementing an interprofessional patient safety learning initiative: insights from participants, project leads and steering committee members

“…A project team of researchers, administrators, clinicians, and educators/faculty designed the intervention, oversaw curriculum development and implementation, and monitored the progress of each clinical team. SafetyNET had four components: (1) completion of online patient safety learning modules (which were developed for a corporate-wide initiative);21 (2) a 3-day team-based patient safety training programme; (3) a 6-month interprofessional action learning project supported by a mentor with expertise in quality and safety; and (4) presentation by each team of the project outcomes to senior organisational leaders and steering committee members. Table 1 provides an overview and the figure in online supplementary file 1 (page 34) provides an illustration of the elements of the SafetyNET intervention.…”

Whistleblowing in Organizations: A Logit analysis of Litigated Cases

“…Whistleblowing dilemmas can occur when there is a conflict between the expectations of an individual and/or a profession regarding safety and the interests of the organization. For instance, with respect to patient safety, occurrences of whistleblowing arise as a result of the obligation of nurses to report coworkers and physicians who engage in acts that may pose threats to patient safety (Bolsin et al, 2011;Jeffs et al, 2012). As for product safety, this is often a concern for engineers.…”