Nurse Executive Role in Patient Safety
Patient safety has frequently been the nature of healthcare practice and nursing through the history of medicine. The increasing emphasizes on accreditation standards and error-reporting requirements have generated a tougher business case for hospitals to concentrate on patient safety (Wachter, 2010, p. 165). Constructing a hospital around the values of patient safety would have significant impacts on yield of investment. Combining safety and proficiency will reduce the expenses of adverse …show more content…
34). The vision that a hospital’s cultural obligation to safety is an significant sign of its aptitude to offer safe care has steered to developing attention in understanding and enhancing patient safety culture (Singer, Falwell, Gaba, & Baker, 2008, p. 1149). Nurse executives need to advocate for culture changes that are conducive to attaining favorable performance outcomes can prove to be beneficial for the organizations