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Culture of Safety Part III - Why Do Things Go Wrong

This lesson is part of a series designed to grasp the Culture of Safety evolving in healthcare. Students will answer questions and interact with graphics to understand the objectives defined. Part III explains the complexity of nursing work and how it relates to a culture of safety.

Learners will be able to:

Explain the significance of complex adaptive systems to a healthcare culture of safety; ...

Keywords:: participate, accountable, patients, IOM, omissions, health, nurses, cultures, blame, swiss cheese model, High Reliability Organizations, Institute of medicine, errors, complexity, consequences, culture of safety, reporting errors, human performance factors, fair, healthcare, medications, systems, responsible, causes, meds, safety, complicated systems, responsibility, commissions, just, reporting, cycle of error, health care

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Health Sciences / Nursing

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Material Type:: Tutorial
Date Added to MERLOT:: January 15, 2009
Date Modified in MERLOT:: July 18, 2016
Author:: Patricia Ebright, Indiana School of Nursing
Submitter:: Eileen Horn
Primary Audience:: College Upper Division, Graduate School, Professional
Technical Format:: Website, Flash

Mobile Compatibility:: Not specified at this time
Language:: English
Cost Involved:: No
Source Code Available:: No
Creative Commons:: This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States