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Safety culture in healthcare
Safety culture in healthcare

In this webinar, Sarah Fischer, Director of Culture & Capability at Safer Care Victoria discussed the elements that make up a safety culture; the steps to safety culture maturation, the signs that indicate success and how culture is influenced at a local level.

Culture
Public
Safety
Safety Culture
Practical tips for developing a culture of care safety
Practical tips for developing a culture of care safety

What is a ‘culture of safety’ in the context of care quality? How does it help? Why is it important? While ‘safety culture’ trips off the tongue,  ‘culture’ is often nebulous in practice; and it can be unclear how to improve it or how the shift occurs.

Boards
Clinical governance
Leadership
Safety Culture
The missing ingredient in falls prevention
The missing ingredient in falls prevention

Falls management and prevention is often described as a wicked problem. There are so many variables at play; consumer risk appetite and independence, staffing issues, technology and frailty, just to name a few. Endless breakthrough collaboratives, studies and improvement projects have addressed the issue. Whilst individual organisations may have experienced some success, falls remain a key cause of consumer harm across health and aged care.

Clinical governance
Quality improvement
Safety Culture
Using systems thinking to reduce incidents
Using systems thinking to reduce incidents

SystemsThinking - A New Direction in Healthcare Incident Investigation.

Adverse events
Risk management
Safety Culture
Systems Thinking
Managing clinical risk in Primary Health care
Managing clinical risk in Primary Health care

The Managing Clinical Risk in Primary Health Care document is designed as a resource for staff in primary health care services. The document has been developed after consultation with practitioners, managers, risk specialists and with reference to the conceptual framework provided by the Victorian Quality Council.

Adverse events
Risk management
Safety Culture
Systems Thinking
What is dignity of risk? A poster
What is dignity of risk? A poster

Dignity of risk is another way of saying you have the right to live the life you choose, even if your choices involve some risk.

Adverse events
Risk management
Safety Culture
Systems Thinking
Exploring the concept of ‘Dignity of Risk’
Exploring the concept of ‘Dignity of Risk’

This 'Dignity of Risk' research project aims to determine policy and decision-makers perceptions of ‘Dignity of Risk’ as it applies to vulnerable older persons living in residential aged care services.

Adverse events
Risk management
Safety Culture
Systems Thinking
What are the core components of managing clinical risk?
What are the core components of managing clinical risk?

In this No Harm Done podcast, Dr Cathy Balding and Cathy Jones delve into the clinical risk management depths.

Adverse events
Risk management
Safety Culture
Systems Thinking
Best practice guide to clinical incident management
Best practice guide to clinical incident management

This guide is a resource to help support individual and organisational learning and to drive quality improvement, in response to patient safety incidents. Organisations may also choose to use the guide to support quality assurance processes.

Adverse events
Risk management
Safety Culture
Systems Thinking
Psychological safety; A practical enabler of a flourishing workplace (Part 2)
Psychological safety; A practical enabler of a flourishing workplace (Part 2)

In part two of this two-part webinar, Dr Duncan McKellar talks about where to start when developing a cultural framework in the context of compassionate, relationship-centred care. Dr Duncan McKellar will talk through the sequence of events needed, citing the three-phase project plan adopted for Northgate, and the practicality of cultivating psychological safety.

Culture
Safety
Safety Culture
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