Culture Flashcards

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What is the first element of an ideal safety culture?

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Collect, analyze, share safety information

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What is the second element of an ideal safety culture

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Error reporting and feedback loops (front line engaged); sensitivity to errors

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What is the third element in an ideal safety culture

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Fair and just response to errors

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What is the fourth element of an ideal safety culture

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Flexibility to restructure when necessary, defer to expertise, reduce hierarchy

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What is the fifth element an ideal safety culture

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Willingness to learn from errors

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6
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Culture: local or organizational?

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Local unit level culture as focus of evaluation and action

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7
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What are 2 high focus areas when interpreting and responding to safety culture survey data

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Teamwork and communication

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8
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What is the typical threshold and survey response rates

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60%

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9
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Should you identify disseminate best practices from high performing work units based on survey results

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Yes

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10
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What does high level of voluntary reporting of near Mrs. suggest of a culture?

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A culture is advanced enough that Frontline understand what makes a defect system failure even if it doesn’t reach the patient

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11
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What are other ways to back up voluntary reporting

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Observations and technology

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12
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Does leadership active involvement in prioritizing patient safety suggest a strong culture

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Yes

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What are three groups that should be involved in patient safety initiatives

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Leadership, multidisciplinary engagement, patient and family involvement

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14
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What is a example of standardization

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Color coded wristbands that reduce errors within departments across organizations and throughout the industry

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What are checklists?

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List of actions that should be performed to optimize patient outcomes

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What are examples of checklists?

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Surgical safety checklist, handoffs, Keystone ICU project

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17
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Should you personalize or you storytelling in error reporting a near miss education?

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Yes

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18
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What is the science of human factors the study of

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The inter-relationship between humans, the tools and equipment they use in the workplace, and the environment in which they work

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What are the six elements of a high performing team?

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Team structure, leadership, communication, situation monitoring, mutual support, coordination and collaboration.

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20
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What are three barriers to disclosure of unexpected outcomes

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Like a culture of safety, psychological barriers, legal barriers.

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21
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What is the term that provides the patient family with all of the information needed for appropriate care decisions?

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Effective disclosure

22
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What are six process steps for the conversation to patient/family?

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Designated personnel roles, conversation outlines, special communication needs accommodations, support services, steps for follow-up conversations, and documentation

23
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What are five things that the lack of health literacy leads to?

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Readmissions, and ability to navigate the healthcare spectrum, increased health cost, limited preventative medicine, self report of poor health

24
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What is the belief that no one will be punished or humiliated for speaking up with ideas questions concerns or mistakes?

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Psychological safety

25
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Building psychological safety requires what?

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Softening of authority gradients

26
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The single greatest impediment to air prevention in the medical industry is?

A

We punish people for making mistakes

27
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What are three key facts about human error

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Cannot be eradicated, error is part of the human condition, we must learn from errors

28
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How can consequences of errors be mitigated?

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Anticipate predictable errors, build safe processes, enhance communication skills and teamwork

29
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Managing at risk behavior requires what two things?

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Feedback and coaching

30
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What is one thing reckless behavior requires?

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Administrative consequence

31
Q

What is the organizational accountable for in a just culture?

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Designing safe systems that encourages and supports safe choices of staff

32
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What are clinicians and staff accountable for in a just culture?

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Accountable for the quality of their choices. 

33
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Define just culture

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Don’t simply punish people because of their actions, but always hold them accountable for their decisions

34
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The cognitive process of automatic processing leads to what?

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Slips and lapses, errors of execution

35
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What are examples of errors of execution

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Interruptions, fatigue, time pressure, anger, anxiety, fear, boredom

36
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What is right plan/intention, but do it wrong called?

A

Error of execution

37
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What is intended action/plan but not the correct one called?

A

Errors of planning

38
Q

Conscious processing (problem solving) leads to what?

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Mistakes – errors are planning

39
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Behavioral choice that increases risk where risk is not recognized or is mistakenly believed to be justified is called what?

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At risk behavior

40
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What are three justifications for at risk behavior?

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Normalized defiance, workaround, drift

41
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What are two common at risk behavior failures?

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Hand hygiene and two patient identifiers

42
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What three concepts creates incentive to do at risk behavior?

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Consequences are weaker than the rules, consequences are uncertain, consequences are delayed or not apparent.

43
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What is the conscious behavioral choice to disregard a substantial and unjustifiable risk such as a rule procedure law or policy?

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Reckless behavior

44
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What is no intention to cause harm

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Reckless behavior

45
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Which behavioral choice has a need to adjust to highly variable conditions, and is comfortable with inherit risk/threats?

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Drift

46
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When team members make choices to go against policy to become more efficient, it is called what?

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Workarounds

47
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Why Should you consider other inputs before defining actions based on the survey results?

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Because culture is multi factorial

48
Q

You’rreducation clinical managers in your healthcare facility on how to identify appropriate events for a RCA. Whixh event provides the best opportunity for an RCA?

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Biopsy samples from my colonoscopy or never received by pathology after the procedure

49
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Should you ask the nurse what was occurring at the time and why she chose to bypass the policy when she did not comply with the BCMA? 

A

Yes

50
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If a surgeon leaves the hospital to catch a flight before the surgery is finished and the x-ray reveals a retained instrument what should leadership do next?

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Counsel the surgeon about clinical standards using appropriate accountability system