How organizational leaders respond to safety events

preventable medical errors, poor patient outcomes will likely continue to occur. How
organizational leaders respond to safety events and communicate to staff, patients, and family

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members following such events is key to building high reliability organizations and enhancing
safety cultures. There are 3 key strategies for how patient safety work is leveraged to reduce risk:
Culture of safety that encourages reporting of events , Leadership training and engagement
Early notification and collaboration with risk management.
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One nursing care process that could be looked at as unsafe is ongoing assessment and
reassessment of patient care that can be provided with the adequate number of nursing staff. This
concept can be called missed nursing care. Missed nursing care can be referred as the need in
nursing care that is delayed, partially completed, or not completed at all. Missed nursing care can
be problematic due to nurses being the ones who provide direct interventions prescribed by
doctors to treat illness in hospitalized patients. As nurses we also create care plans that we can
evaluate and deliver nurse-initiated care to manage patients' symptoms and responses to care, and
to promote health and healing. When we miss nursing care not only does this cause a form or
medical error but most importantly affects the safety of our patients.
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Summary from this article is based on decreasing falls with patients is a significant safety
and quality initiative. When hospitalized patients fall, they are at an increased risk for injury,