Answer 3 for DNP 835 Reflecting on the “IHI Module: PS 202 Achieving Total Systems of Safety,” describe the eight recommendations proposed in the IHI report that DNP leaders can apply to accelerate patient safety and the prevention of harm
Healthcare organizations yearn to promote patient safety. However, promoting patient safety is a process that involve various engagements. Effective leadership and competent healthcare professionals are part of aspects that guarantee promotion of patient safety (Huang et al., 2020). Promotion of patient safety may also involve incorporating different changes in healthcare settings. These changes guarantee improvement in the quality of healthcare services and promotion of patient safety (Abedi et al., 2019). Therefore, effective leadership allows leaders to take charge of positive change in their organizations. Besides, leaders instruct and guide most activities related to promotion of patient safety. The partnership between competent workforce and perfect leaders results to effective patient safety and change implementation where necessary. Doctors of Nursing Practices use the leaders to augment the safety culture mindset encouraging them to direct, centralize, and synchronize a plan that promotes patient safety. Excellent leaders understand the safety culture. Hence, it is possible for them to guarantee positive patient culture in their decisions and actions.
References
Abedi, G., Mahmoodi, G., Malekzadeh, R., Khodaei, Z., Siraneh Belete, Y., & Hasanpoor, E. (2019). Impact of patients’ safety rights and medical errors on the patients’ security feeling: a cross-sectional study. International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare, 12(3), 215-224. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJHRH-01-2019-0001
Huang, C. H., Wu, H. H., Lee, Y. C., Van Nieuwenhuyse, I., Lin, M. C., & Wu, C. F. (2020). Patient safety in work environments: perceptions of pediatric healthcare providers in Taiwan. Journal of Pediatric Nursing, 53, 6-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pedn.2020.03.005