Declare Patient Safety Urgent and a Priority

Leaders must declare patient safety urgent and a priority and must embrace safety as an integral part of the health care environment. Leaders need to lead with courage and take an imflinching look at their own leadership, accepting responsibility for the current state and declaring the intention to do better. Leaders must be visible to the front line and must understand the technical work of the front line, both from the perspective of process flow and from the patient-family experience. 

Chapter One, Declare Patient Safety Urgent and a Priority, explores the patient safety manifesto s first challenge to leadership. The chapter discusses how... 

To create a solid platform from which to build safety and resilience in an organization, leaders must declare patient safety to be urgent and a priority. A first strategy is to convene influential clinicians. They are readily identifiable. They are the individuals whom peers seek out for new information, opinions, and consultations. They can help explore three important questions ... 

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