NURS 1001- Nurses Role in Organziational Safety

Quality Care

Quality Care

Providing patient-centered, safe, effective, timely, equitable, collaborative, and comprehensive care with a focus on continuous improvement.

Accreditation Canada

An ongoing process of assessing healthcare and social services organizations against standards of excellence to identify areas of improvement.

Professional Standards

Authoritative statements that describe the responsibilities for which practitioners are accountable in a specific profession.

Best Practice Guidelines (BPG)

Systematically developed, evidence-based documents that provide recommendations for improving outcomes in healthcare.

Nurse Sensitive Outcomes

Patient outcomes directly influenced by nursing care, such as patient satisfaction, safety, medication errors, length of hospital stay, and readmission rates.

Leadership Impacting Quality Care

Effective leadership prioritizes quality improvement, promotes safety culture, communicates effectively, is accountable, uses evidence-informed decision making, is regulatory compliant, and serves as a role model.

Patient Safety

The reduction of unnecessary harm associated with healthcare to an acceptable minimum.

Nurse Safety

Strategies to promote the well-being and protection of nurses in the workplace, including safe staffing levels, training and education, personal protective equipment (PPE), violence prevention, and fatigue management.

Organizational Safety

Creating a culture that prioritizes safety at all levels and departments, including proficient leadership, safety commitment, policies and procedures, reporting systems, root cause analysis, performance metrics, audits, and infection control.

Positive Workplace Culture

Characteristics of a positive workplace culture include respect, inclusivity, clear communication, teamwork, collaboration, empowerment, recognition, fairness, equity, organizational values, and conflict resolution.

Sentinel Event

A patient safety event that results in death, permanent harm, or severe temporary harm.

Safety Culture

A culture where everyone involved is committed to maintaining a safe environment, including just culture, reporting culture, and learning culture.

Nurses Role in Safety Culture

Assessing risks, promoting patient safety, reporting incidents, collaborating, advocating, ensuring personal safety, and conducting research.

Discrimination in Healthcare

Cultural safety, cultural awareness and competence, self-reflection, respect for cultural identity, equity, social justice, non-discrimination, recognition of trauma and historical context, reporting, and accountability.

Othering

A social process where a dominant group defines and subordinates others using negative attributes.

Gender Discrimination

Discrimination based on gender, including pay inequities, limited access to senior/leadership roles for women, workplace violence, sexual harassment, disproportionate assignments for men, exclusion from certain areas of nursing, and mistaken identity.

Racism

Impacts of racism in healthcare, health disparities, access to care, quality of care, implicit bias, maternal mortality, mental health disparities, structural racism, systemic racism, and confronting stereotypes.

Nurses Role in Preventing Discrimination

Self-awareness, advocacy, cultural competence, reporting incidents, anti-racism education, support for colleagues, adherence to policies and procedures, promoting equity, engaging with the community, and practicing cultural humility.

CNO's Code of Conduct

Nurses provide inclusive and culturally safe care by practicing cultural humility, as outlined in the College of Nurses of Ontario's Code of Conduct.

Empowering Nurses to Change the System

A call to action for nurses to acknowledge the problem, become educated, and make a commitment to address issues related to safety, racism, discrimination, and patient care.