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Current Research: Integrative Medicine
Nursing Care & ICNND 2018
October 22-23, 2018
October 22-23, 2018 Madrid, Spain
46
th
World Congress on
Nursing Care, Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
Safety culture 2018
Samer Ellahham and Nour Ellahham
Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, UAE
S
afety in healthcare has received substantial attention worldwide. Rapid change in healthcare has mandated greater attention to
safety, which is essential for quality patient care, employee welfare and morale. Safety is a condition or state of being resulting from
the modification of human behavior and/or designing of the physical environment to reduce hazards, thereby reducing the chance
of accidents. The biggest challenge to moving toward a safer health system is changing the culture from one of blaming individuals
for errors to one in which errors are treated not as personal failures, but as opportunities to improve the system and prevent harm.
Promoting a culture of safety has become a pillar of the patient safety movement. Patient safety is the avoidance and prevention of
patient injuries or adverse events resulting from the processes of health care delivery. Patient safety also means prevention of harms
to patients. Organizations with a positive safety culture are characterized by communications founded on mutual trust, by shared
perceptions of the importance of safety and by confidence in the efficacy of preventive measures. Two important concepts affect
the culture of safety: Error reporting and disclosure of errors. The acceptance of and means by which errors are identified, reported
and communicated to those involved or affected, have much to do with how well safety is ingrained in the healthcare organization’s
culture. Most patient injuries are due to system failure. Most medical errors result not from the errors of individuals, but from
numerous latent errors that exist within complicated systems of care delivery. This approach to medical error is well supported and
consistent with historical efforts in healthcare quality improvement. The goal to develop a positive culture of safety has tremendous
potential to benefit patients.
samerellahham@yahoo.comJ Current Res: Int Medicine 2018, Volume 3
DOI: 10.4172/2529-797X-C2-006