When patient safety concerns arise in a non-punitive workplace, the emphasis is on improving processes rather than blaming individuals. Establishing a non-punitive workplace culture is a cornerstone ...

Joint Commission 2026 National Performance Goals require hospitals to align staffing decisions with patient safety and clinical needs continuously.

Patient safety culture in healthcare refers to the collective commitment by clinicians, managers and supporting staff to prioritise patient safety through ethical practices, open communication and ...

Healthcare leaders across the country are grappling with an urgent and undeniable reality: the workforce crisis is reshaping every part of our industry. Burnout, staffing shortages, rising patient ...

This study examined the relationship between the departmental work environment and patient safety outcomes to determine if there were particular subcomponents of a department’s work environment that ...

With its Zero Harm 24/7 project, the patient experience organization is asking health systems to help drive improvements in transparency and culture by establishing a standardized patient and staff ...

Safety culture refers to the ways that safety issues are addressed in a workplace. It often reflects “the attitudes, beliefs, perceptions and values that employees share in relation to safety.” 1 The ...

In 1999, the Institute of Medicine Committee on Quality of Health Care in America published “To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System” — an investigation into the prevalence of medical errors ...

The field of patient safety in dentistry is evolving rapidly, encompassing a broad spectrum of initiatives aimed at reducing iatrogenic harm and minimising adverse events. A multifaceted approach ...

Patient safety challenges are exacerbated by healthcare workforce challenges. However, a workplace culture focused on measuring what goes wrong and making changes to address root causes – powered by ...

PubMed Central® (PMC), the archive of biomedical and life sciences journal articles from the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM), recently released a ...

Despite improvement efforts over the past 30 years, patient safety and preventable harm incidents remain significant challenges in the healthcare industry. According to a 2023 study in the New England ...