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It's The Building That Is Causing Medical Errors
Category: Seeing Clearly Now
Guess which workplace is worried about hospital-acquired infections, medical errors and operational failures? Hint: many of the employees wear white uniforms and carry stethoscopes.
There is an urgent need to address the inherent problems in the healthcare workplace that lead to staff injuries and hospital-acquired infections, medical errors, operational failures, and wastage. The physical environment plays an important role in improving the health and safety for staff, increasing effectiveness in providing care, reducing errors, and increasing job satisfaction.These improved outcomes may, in turn, help in reducing staff turnover and increase retention -- two key factors related to providing quality care in hospitals. However, it has become increasingly clear that efforts to improve the physical environment alone are not likely to help an organization achieve its goals without a complementary shift in work culture and work practices.
Source: The Center for Health Design
Bottom Line: (1) injured and unhappy hospital employees cause many of the medical errors experienced by patients and (2) hospital employees get the same poor care when they become patients. Conclusion: It's the building, stupid!
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