BC Advantage - 2025 Issue 4

Culture of Safety Is Based on Prevention, Not Punishment

  This article emphasizes the need for healthcare institutions to focus on building a culture of safety through Root Cause Analysis (RCA) to manage clinical risk.   Keeping patients safe requires an organizational culture of safety based on the commitment from directors and C-suite executives. Creating a patient safety environment includes complex interventions that involve the need for variations in individual work routines and healing processes, as well as behavioral changes to be made on the part of the team or the individual for maximum acceptance from others.   Patient safety is a framework of organized activities that creates...

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