DNP 835 As a future DNP leader describe what quantitative and qualitative data you could use to assess the culture of your practice site or organization Re: Topic 6 DQ 1

 DNP 835 As a future DNP leader describe what quantitative and qualitative data you could use to assess the culture of your practice site or organization

Re: Topic 6 DQ 1

Assessing the culture of my practice site will require data on the proportion of clinicians that have taken safety courses, the proportion of nurses that understand the safety risks, clinicians’ safety beliefs and attitudes, and the incidence of safety incidents and near misses (Azyabi, Karwowski, & Davahli, 2021). These qualitative and quantitative data will help create a more comprehensive picture of the overall culture in the practice site. Personal ideas and beliefs regarding safety captured by interviewing clinicians, patients, and culture experts will also be beneficial in assessing the culture in my practice setting.

The creation, shaping, and sustenance of a safety culture requires an understanding of each of the six domains of a culture of safety. Thus, I will endeavor to ensure that I understand the requirements in each of these domains. Secondly, implementing continuous monitoring of safety incidents will also be beneficial. Data from the monitoring systems will aid investigations into the root causes of errors and their elimination (Hunt et al., 2022). Patients will be involved in the reporting systems. The patients will be required to provide additional insights into safety incidents and near misses. Integration of evidence-based practices that have been proven to be effective in reducing safety incidents (Rosen & Kelz, 2021). I will keep abreast with research, guidelines, and best practices in research relating to safety within healthcare. I will then encourage my practice site to adopt some of these practices after assessing its readiness for change, the effectiveness of the intervention, and its relative efficiency. Motivating the worksite to create a culture of safety will require highlighting the costs and implications of safety incidents and corrective interventions to the facility, patients, and caregivers (Rosen & Kelz, 2021). These measures will ensure they develop an understanding of the gravity of safety issues and the value of proposed corrective interventions.

References

Azyabi, A., Karwowski, W., & Davahli, M. R. (2021). Assessing patient safety culture in hospital settings. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(5), 2466. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18052466

Hunt, J., Gammon, J., Williams, S., Daniel, S., Rees, S., & Matthewson, S. (2022). Patient safety culture as a space of social struggle: Understanding infection prevention practice and patient safety culture within hospital isolation settings – a qualitative study. BMC Health Services Research, 22(1), 1446. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-022-08703-x

Rosen, C. B., & Kelz, R. R. (2021). Processes to create a culture of surgical patient safety. The Surgical Clinics of North America, 101(1), 29–36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.suc.2020.09.008