Abstract

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) defines patient safety as "freedom from accidental injury and ensuring patient safety involves establishing operational systems and processes that minimize the possibility of errors and maximize the possibility of intercepting them when they occur". For over a decade healthcare organizations have placed a great deal of effort into establishing operational systems and processes to minimize errors and achieve a culture of safety in their organization. This effort to improve patient safety has been one of the most highly publicized and critical issues facing the healthcare industry. In 1999 the IOM report To Err Is Human stated that avoidable medical errors annually contributed to 44,000 to 98,000 deaths in the United States. Current estimates now place the number to between 210,000 and 440,000 patients annually. Since the IOM report, there has been a diverse level of engagement to improve health care safety. Although improvements have been made, health care safety is still not demonstrably and measurably safer due to the complexity of the healthcare system and the challenge of creating cultures of safety which requires changes in behaviors.

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This dissertation has also been disseminated through the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. Dissertation/thesis number: 3681400; ProQuest document ID: 1655588311. The author still retains copyright.

Author Details

Debbie Anglade, PhD, MSN, RN, CPHQ, CCM

Sigma Membership

Beta Tau

Type

Dissertation

Format Type

Text-based Document

Study Design/Type

Descriptive/Correlational

Research Approach

Quantitative Research

Keywords:

Burnout, Patient Care, Safety, Secondary Traumatic Stress

Advisor

Rosina Cianelli

Second Advisor

Deborah Saber

Third Advisor

Andrew Wawrzyniak

Fourth Advisor

David Birnbach

Degree

PhD

Degree Grantor

University of Miami

Degree Year

2014

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None: Degree-based Submission

Acquisition

Proxy-submission

Date of Issue

2024-05-08

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