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Managed Care Nursing

Category - Healthcare Management

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Select the option that accurately reflects impacts to the healthcare’s “culture of
safety.”
  1. The IOM published To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health Care System in 1999.
  2. Culture of safety is enhanced when employees participate in safety plans.
  3. Culture of safety is created with appropriate availability of protective equipment.
  4. All of the above
Explanation
Answer: D - Healthcare’s “culture of safety” is impacted by the Institute of Medicine publication of To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health Care System in 1999.

This report emphasized the patient and healthcare worker benefits from quality and safe care toward improvement of healthcare systems failures and errors. The culture of safety is enhanced when employees participate in safety plans and groups reinforce the norms including onboarding of new staff. Safety also relies on availability of protective equipment.
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