Choose one of the following two questions to address.
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.
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.
Reading:
McGonigle, D. & Mastrian, K. G. (2018). Nursing informatics and the foundation of
knowledge (4th edition). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.
Chapter 14: The Electronic Health Record and Clinical Informatics
Chapter 15: Informatics Tools to Promote Patient Safety and Quality Outcomes
