Other Titles
Culture of safety: Beyond the safety survey - Implications for nursing science and healthcare leadership
Abstract
Assessing the safety climate of healthcare organizations is an important step in embarking on creating processes to improve overall patient safety. Nursing leadership considerations for improving safe practice must begin with a measurement of the current perception of safe practice in order to correct unsafe practice. If the present culture is not responding to interventions to improve unsafe practice, there is no point in measuring safety culture (Pronovost P., Sexton, B. 2006). The Agency for Health Research and Quality's (AHRQ), Culture of Safety Survey (COSS) poses questions in key areas affecting patient safety from frontline staff's lived experience and perceived sense of safety. In this study, we observed through a focus group that inviting feedback from healthcare staff (that had responded to the PICU COSS) created engagement of staff to contribute to safety improvement measures on their unit. Staffing, consistent communication, and supply access were themes identified for improvement.
Sigma Membership
Theta Tau
Type
Thesis
Format Type
Text-based Document
Study Design/Type
Cross-Sectional
Research Approach
Mixed/Multi Method Research
Keywords:
Nursing Leadership, Workplace Safety, Safe Practices, Safety Culture
Advisor
Deborah Ward
Second Advisor
Joanne Natale
Third Advisor
Ester Apesoa-Varano
Degree
Master's
Degree Grantor
University of California, Davis
Degree Year
2012
Recommended Citation
Whitney, Kim, "Culture of safety: Beyond the safety survey: A cross-sectional, mix-methods study" (2021). Theses. 53.
https://www.sigmarepository.org/theses/53
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None: Degree-based Submission
Acquisition
Proxy-submission
Date of Issue
2021-11-16
Full Text of Presentation
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This dissertation has also been disseminated through the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. Dissertation/thesis number: 1519814; ProQuest document ID: 1112073447. The author still retains copyright.