Patient safety culture: the nursing unit leader's role.

Discussions about a culture of patient safety abound, yet nurse leaders continue to struggle to achieve such a culture in today's complex and fast-paced healthcare environment. In this article the authors discuss the concept of a patient safety culture, present a fictional scenario describing what happened in a hospital that lacked a culture of patient safety, and explain what should have happened in the above scenario. This discussion is offered within a framework consisting of seven driving factors of patient safety.

What is patient safety culture? A review of the literature.

Purpose: To organize the properties of safety culture addressed by many studies and to develop a conceptual culture of safety model.

Design And Methods: A comprehensive review of the culture of safety literature within the U.S.

Physician characteristics and the reported effect of evidence-based practice guidelines.

Objective: To explore characteristics that may contribute to the effect practice guidelines have on the practice of medicine.

Data Sources: From the third round of the Community Tracking Study, Physician Survey, 2000-2001.

Study Design: An ordinal logistic regression model was estimated to capture the full range of responses.