A Just Culture In Healthcare
A Just Culture refers to a model that is value-supportive and where accountability is shared. Organizations are held accountable for the systems that they design and the manner in which they respond to the behaviors of staff in a just and fair way. Staff members are, in turn, accountable for the quality of their choices and for reporting system vulnerabilities and any errors that, as individuals, they make. A just culture recognizes that healthcare practitioners should not be held accountable for errors that occur due to system errors as they do not have control of this aspect. It also recognizes that many active or individual errors take place between interactions that occur when humans use systems when carrying out their duties (Marx, 2019).
The Just Culture can be hindered in an organization that does not have a culture of open communication. If the leadership in a healthcare facility has traditionally not encouraged open communication, then attempting to integrate a Just Culture within an eroded communication channel will most likely fail (Khatri et al., 2009). A second situation that would hinder a Just culture is where the staff is untrusting and fearful of their job safety. In a study done by Edwards (2018), the results showed that even after close to a decade, the Just Culture has not been assimilated as was anticipated. The study showed that 70 percent of the hospitals that had taken up the program did not show any improvements in the changes meant to be effected by the Just Culture, namely the frequency of reported events and non-punitive responses to any errors. The main reason was that staff feared a career suicide that would follow self-reporting. Hence, in a hostile environment, a Just Culture fails to fulfill its promise of eliminating a culture of gross underreporting of improvement opportunities and blame, which continues to be a barrier to patient safety progress.
References
Edwards, M. T. (2018). An assessment of the impact of just culture on quality and safety in US hospitals. American Journal of Medical Quality, 33(5), 502-508.
Khatri, N., Brown, G. D., & Hicks, L. L. (2009). From a blame culture to a just culture in health care. Health care management review, 34(4), 312-322.
Marx, D. (2019). Patient safety and the just culture. Obstetrics and gynecology clinics of North America, 46(2), 239-245.
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A Just Culture In Healthcare
Describe the principal components of the Just Culture Process in HC. Provide what it means and present two challenges this may cause in various situations. Write 300 words and then respond to two other postings (100 words each).
Nash, D. B., Clarke, J. L., Skoufalos, A., & Horowitz, M. (2012). Health care quality: The clinician’s primer.
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