Leadership Oversight for Patient Safety Programs: An Essential Element

An evaluation of patient safety leadership walkarounds.

Patient safety leadership walkarounds (PSLWA) have been identified as an effective tool to improve patient safety culture. At Hamilton Health Sciences, after one year of monthly PSLWA in all clinical and service programs, 1,351 patient safety issues were identified, of which 64-80% have been resolved or have active improvement work in progress. Five hundred staff were invited to complete a proc...

Nursing Transformational Leadership for Patient Safety

Transformational leaders are proactive and convince followers to strive for higher performance. These leaders are respected, motivate others, stimulate creativity, and recognise need for individual achievement. Earlier studies have reported that positive leadership attributes (eg, transformational style, manager support, staff involvement with decision making, positive work environment) were as...

Creating an oversight infrastructure for electronic health record-related patient safety hazards.

Electronic health records (EHRs) have potential quality and safety benefits. However, reports of EHR-related safety hazards are now emerging. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology recently sponsored an Institute of Medicine committee to evaluate how health information technology use affects patient safety. In this article, we propose the creation of a national...

Obtaining leadership support for medical safety programs: a practical approach.

Essential Components for a Patient Safety Strategy

om The safety of operating rooms is dependent in large measure on the professional and regulatory requirements that mandate skill levels, documentation standards, appropriate monitoring, and well-maintained equipment. Prescriptive and detailed protocols exist for almost every procedure performed, and although variation based on surgical and anesthesia preference is allowed, overall there is exc...