Whistleblowing in Healthcare for Patient Safety: An Integrative Literature Review

Patient safety has progressed over the past decade from being a relatively insignificant issue to position of high importance for healthcare executives and policy makers. However, most opportunities professionals identify act upon patient concerns are likely occur much further upstream, such as, within day-to-day mundane activities. Because this, makers have ramped up focus on role “whistleblowers” towards raising around in settings. The notion whistleblowing been known bring scandals light, which essence contributed preventing future harm patients. Although this may be true, when compared other industries, there remains little research healthcare. For reason, purpose study was examine organizational culture change healthcare, link between ethics whistleblowing, processes levels By focusing these, researcher successful highlighting series factors that both inhibit foster Thereafter, then suggested steps can used help organizations build sustain an ethical where is viewed as morale right.