Patient safety

Question 1

What is the Swiss cheese model?

Answer 1

In the Swiss cheese model, an organisation’s defenses against failure are modeled as a series of barriers, represented as slices of cheese. The holes in the slices represent weaknesses in individual parts of the system and are continually varying in size and position across the slices.

Question 2

What is the organisation accident model?

Answer 2

Shows that accident occurs due to issues throughout the organisation. Issues flows from organisation, workplace, person, through a hole in the defences, creating a accident.

Question 3

What is the Malcom Knowles 5 assumptions?

Answer 3

The five assumptions of andragogy are that adults are self-directed learners, adult learners bring a wealth of experience to the educational setting, adults enter educational settings ready to learn, adults are problem-centered in their learning, and adults are best motivated by internal factors.

1. Self Concept – When we get older, our concept of who we are (self-concept) shifts from dependence towards independence and self-direction.

2 Adult Learner Experience – As we grow and experience more life, we accumulate knowledge based on this experience that then becomes a more valuable resource for future learning. By the time we are adults, we have an abundance of experience to draw upon across a variety of contexts.

3. Readiness to learn – Our readiness to learn becomes more oriented to the developmental tasks of our social and work related roles.
4. Orientation to Learning – As adults, our perspective changes from one of postponed application of knowledge to immediate application, and as such our orientation shifts from one of subject-centered to one of problem-centered.
5. Motivation to Learn – As we mature, the motivation to learn is internal