Monday, November 3, 2003: 3:00 PM-4:15 PM | |||
Cultivating Discoveries in Patient Safety | |||
| Learning Objective #1: Understand how to design processes to improve safety via precision in assessment, monitoring patient responses, and investigation of near misses | |||
| Learning Objective #2: Understand the nature and characteristics of communications and the magnitude of their impact on teamwork and patient outcomes | |||
| A science of patient safety is evolving under increasing concern about the safety of healthcare delivery. Affonso and Doran (2002) proposed a new vision of patient safety that moves beyond the predominant themes of error detection, risk management and reducing adverse drug events to a focus on protecting patients and nurturing the unique human capacity for sustaining life. In this new perspective, protective caring processes include precision in assessments based on knowledge of human responses to diagnoses and treatments, clinical decision-making that is evidence-based and rooted in ethical values, and nurturing processes of care that embody humanistic qualities. These include healthy communications among all involved in health care, mobilizing the support of human resources, and valuing of the individual’s capacity for self-care. This new vision for patient safety provided the framework for cultivating discoveries in patient safety. In this symposium participants will examine how to cultivate discoveries in patient safety through three action blocks, conceptualized as cornerstones that have merit for ensuring safe systems in health care. These are to: a) Reform the organizational culture that exists among institutions through investigations of ethical dilemmas and critical thinking for decision-making; b) redesign of patient care processes and practice standards by learning from near misses; and c) building teamwork and operating from a platform that values cultural diversity. | |||
| Organizer: | Dyanne Affonso, RN, PhD | ||
| Cultivating discoveries in patient safety research: a framework Dyanne Affonso, RN, PhD, Diane Doran, PhD | |||
| Ensuring Safe Care Through Team Literacy Diane Doran, PhD, Dyanne Affonso, RN, PhD | |||
| Near Misses: Health Professionals and Consumer Perspectives Mary Ferguson-Pare, RN, PhD, Dyanne Affonso, RN, PhD, Lianne Jeffs, RN, MN, Patricia Petryshen, RN, PhD, Leslie Vincent, RN, MScA | |||
| Patient Safety: An Innovative Model Patricia Petryshen, RN, PhD, Dyanne Affonso, RN, PhD, Diane Doran, PhD, Mary Ferguson-Pare, RN, PhD, Leslie Vincent, RN, MScA, Joy Richards, RN, MN, Mary Jo Haddad, RN, MHSc, Karima Velji, RN | |||
37th Biennial Convention - Scientific Session
Sigma Theta Tau International