Just Culture Tool Kit
Creating a just culture
promotes both professional accountability and reporting of medical
errors.
Analyzing medical errors is an important part of improving patient safety. Analytical methods will not work if your team is bound by a "code of silence" or are fearful of retribution. A just culture fosters a professional milieu that includes reporting systems and processes for improving patient safety through organized analysis.
AORN's Commitment to Patient Safety Improvement
As part of AORN's commitment to patient safety
improvement, we created a position statement to promote just
culture and a Just Culture Tool Kit to help you implement
it.
An excerpt from the AORN Position Statement on Creating a Patient Safety Culture summarizes AORN's motivation for producing this tool kit:
All healthcare organizations must strive to create a culture of safety
- Safety should be valued as the top priority, even at the expense of productivity
- A just culture is an environment where actions are analyzed to ensure that individual accountability is established and appropriate actions are taken.
- A commitment to safety must be articulated at all levels of the organization
AORN's Just Culture Tool Kit
AORN offers the Just Culture Tool Kit to all of it's
members at no cost. This is one of many benefits of being an AORN
member.
Download the Just Culture Tool Kit now.
The Just Culture Tool Kit contains educational materials, including a primer for health care executives and just culture presentation; tools, including the Reason Algorithm, Guideline and Scenarios for demonstrating The Reason Algorithm; and AORN resources, including the AORN Position Statement on Creating a Patient Safety Culture, AORN Position Statement on Patient Safety, AORN Guidance Statement on Creating a Patient Safety Culture, and Just Culture Annotated Bibliography.
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