Everyone involved in healthcare, including patients and their families, shares responsibility for quality and accountability. When standards of care are not met, it can harm patient safety and damage an organization's reputation. The document discusses the importance of accountability in the workplace and asks the reader to describe a time they witnessed a lack of accountability in their interprofessional team, the effects it had, and what ethical actions should have been taken.

1. Accountability in the Workplace
We are all responsible for quality—health care leadership, providers, volunteers, and yes,
even patients and their families. An organization with high standards and a reputation for
delivering quality patient care will inevitably have a culture that demands both professional
and personal accountability. Failing to meet standards of care is detrimental to patient
safety. The resulting repercussions may cause harm that reaches well beyond the individual
to staff, management, and regulatory agencies. In this discussion, describe a time when you
witnessed another person on the interprofessional team not being accountable. Be sure to
follow the requirements for initial postings found in the Faculty Expectations Message
(FEM). What were the effects? What ethical course of action should have been initiated?
How did the facility respond? How can the patient and the organization partner to develop
safer care? being a nurse for since 2005 have worked in the hospital setting 2 years and the
rest in a home health agency. This paper should be based on an event that occurred during
my time as a nurse in the hospital wich was in 2012 to 2014. Please only use .org, .edu and
.net and sources no later than 2016#Accountability #Workplace