History: I went to Winthrop university Graduated 05/2011 My major was communication of sciences and disorders also known as speech pathology I received my BA degree The program was closing as I was attending The program is now closed Website: https://www.winthrop.edu/ Why are organizations encouraged to develop a culture of safety? How can a culture of safety be achieved? How can a culture of safety be assessed? Research and identify an article discussing a healthcare organization e.g. hospital, nursing home, surgery center, patient care facility etc. that has implemented innovative safety operations to reduce corporate risk. Summarize three to four main points from your selected article. Cite the article in APA format as part of your post. Why are organizations encouraged to develop a culture of safety? Health care organizations are encouraged to create a safety culture to minimize the risk of injury and/or death to the patient as well as the employees due to everyday common mistakes ( Pogzar,2012). For example many times patients who have had invasive procedures develop sepsis while still in the hospital; this is due to carelessness of the treating staff when caring for the open wound. With employees a simple thing such as getting a flu shot can provide a safer, healthier environment for both parties, while reducing absences in the work place. How can a culture of safety be achieved? A culture of safety has to come from the top down, meaning that it must be demonstrated by management all the way down to the entry level employees in order for the collective efforts to make a difference in the way patient care is monitored and flowed. The vision set forth by the organization must be a realistic and one that motivates the employees to walk in the way of the vision. Most important is that the culture is able to evolve with technology and changing healthcare regulations. Mostly a culture of safety has to be one of commitment by all involved in the daily workflow. How can a culture of safety be assessed? Many organizations use benchmarking to assess where they stand amongst their peers, meaning how they fair against other organizations of the same size that provide the same services that they do. This can also be done by developing programs for patient safety and tracking the rate of which incidents are occur before, during, and after the roll out of the programs. The most important part of the assessment is being sure that the mandatory regulations are being upheld and carried out to standards. Organization In the article Sentara Healthcare: Making Patient Safety an Enduring Organizational Value, it speaks of how the organization as a whole was doing poorly compared to peer organizations. The leadership deiced to hire an outside firm to assess areas where the organization could improve and to help increase patient safety. Once, the assessment was complete organizational strategies and tools where implemented to help ensure that th ...

1. History:
I went to Winthrop university
Graduated 05/2011
My major was communication of sciences and disorders also
known as speech pathology
I received my BA degree
The program was closing as I was attending
The program is now closed
Website: https://www.winthrop.edu/
Why are organizations encouraged to develop a culture of
safety? How can a culture of safety be achieved? How can a
culture of safety be assessed? Research and identify an article
discussing a healthcare organization e.g. hospital, nursing
home, surgery center, patient care facility etc. that has
implemented innovative safety operations to reduce corporate
risk. Summarize three to four main points from your selected
article. Cite the article in APA format as part of your post.
Why are organizations encouraged to develop a culture of
safety?
Health care organizations are encouraged to create a safety
culture to minimize the risk of injury and/or death to the patient
as well as the employees due to everyday common mistakes (
Pogzar,2012). For example many times patients who have had
invasive procedures develop sepsis while still in the hospital;
this is due to carelessness of the treating staff when caring for
the open wound. With employees a simple thing such as getting
a flu shot can provide a safer, healthier environment for both
parties, while reducing absences in the work place.
How can a culture of safety be achieved?
A culture of safety has to come from the top down, meaning that

2. it must be demonstrated by management all the way down to the
entry level employees in order for the collective efforts to make
a difference in the way patient care is monitored and flowed.
The vision set forth by the organization must be a realistic and
one that motivates the employees to walk in the way of the
vision. Most important is that the culture is able to evolve with
technology and changing healthcare regulations. Mostly a
culture of safety has to be one of commitment by all involved in
the daily workflow.
How can a culture of safety be assessed?
Many organizations use benchmarking to assess where they
stand amongst their peers, meaning how they fair against other
organizations of the same size that provide the same services
that they do. This can also be done by developing programs for
patient safety and tracking the rate of which incidents are occur
before, during, and after the roll out of the programs. The most
important part of the assessment is being sure that the
mandatory regulations are being upheld and carried out to
standards.
Organization
In the article Sentara Healthcare: Making Patient Safety an
Enduring Organizational Value, it speaks of how the
organization as a whole was doing poorly compared to peer
organizations. The leadership deiced to hire an outside firm to
assess areas where the organization could improve and to help
increase patient safety. Once, the assessment was complete
organizational strategies and tools where implemented to help
ensure that the change would come about through the entire
organization.
References
Oh, J. (2012, June 4). 6 Elements of a True Patient Safety

3. Culture. Retrieved December 17, 2015, from
http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/quality/6-elements-of-a-
true-patient-safety-culture.html
Pozgar, G. (2012). Legal Aspects of Health Care Administration
(11 ed.). Sudbury, Massachusetts: Jones& Bartlett Learning.
US National Library of Medicine, & National Institute of
Health. (2003, November). Safety culture assessment: a tool for
improving patient safety in healthcare organizations.
Retrieved December 17, 2015, from
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1765782/
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Your active participation in the discussion forums is essential to
your overall success this term. Discussion questions are
designed to help you make meaningful
connections between the course content and the larger concepts
and goals of the course. These discussions offer you the
opportunity to express your own
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your classmates’ responses and instructor’s guidance.
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with at least two response posts for each discussion board
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For your initial post (1), you must do the following:

4. 11:59 p.m.
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Thursday at
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modules, when
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discussion
points, as appropriate (using proper citation methods for your
discipline).
For your response posts (2), you must do the following:
initial post
thread.
nse posts by Sunday
at 11:59
p.m. Eastern Time.
Sunday at

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Critical Elements Exemplary Proficient Needs Improvement
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Comprehension Develops an initial post with an
organized, clear point of view or
idea using rich and significant
detail (100%)
Develops an initial post with a
point of view or idea using
appropriate detail (90%)
Develops an initial post with a
point of view or idea but with
some gaps in organization and
detail (70%)
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with an organized point of view
or idea (0%)
20
Timeliness Submits initial post on time
(100%)
Submits initial post one day late
(70%)

6. Submits initial post two or more
days late (0%)
10
Engagement Provides relevant and
meaningful response posts with
clarifying explanation and detail
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Provides relevant response posts
with some explanation and
detail (90%)
Provides somewhat relevant
response posts with some
explanation and detail (70%)
Provides response posts that are
generic with little explanation or
detail (0%)
20
Critical Thinking Draws insightful conclusions that
are thoroughly defended with
evidence and examples (100%)
Draws informed conclusions that
are justified with evidence (90%)
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conclusions (0%)
30

7. Writing
(Mechanics)
Initial post and responses are
easily understood, clear, and
concise using proper citation
methods where applicable with
no errors in citations (100%)
Initial post and responses are
easily understood using proper
citation methods where
applicable with few errors in
citations (90%)
Initial post and responses are
understandable using proper
citation methods where
applicable with a number of
errors in citations (70%)
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understandable and do not use
proper citation methods where
applicable (0%)
20
Total 100%