Step 3 Perform a current state analysis

Making safety a strategic objective usually entails considerable change in a healthcare organization, both structurally and culturally. In an ideal world, the outcome looks like this  

For most organizations, reaching this desired state requires many changes. Leaders need to pinpoint the specific changes required for the organization s transformation and then order them 

Information about the current state of the culture gives leaders many of their most important improvement targets. Because distinct subcultures often exist in different facilities and their subunits, the diagnostic data should be obtained in a sufficiently robust way that allows the information to be disaggregated and analyzed by location and subunit. 

Leaders need information about all nine dimensions of the OCDI, explained in chapter 3 and recapped in Table 8-2 for ease of reference. 

Procedural justice Leader-member exchange Leadership credibility 

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Step 3 Perform a current state analysis using the Blueprint for Healthcare Safety Excellence. 

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