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If you’re a hospital leader, the safety of your patients and your employees might be keeping you up at night. That’s because senior management is accountable for creating and maintaining a safe environment for hospital staff and patients. You’re right to be concerned. Research has shown that the demands and complexity of work in a healthcare setting have a significant impact on workplace safety, and the risks that patients face are strongly related to safety events that employees suffer.
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Employee engagement plays a significant role in mitigating accidents on the job. What's also true is that employee engagement—the extent to which a workplace meets employees’ needs in 12 critical areas—plays a significant role in mitigating employee accidents on the job.
Gallup, in partnership with Loma Linda University Medical Center (LLUMC), has discovered key evidence that shows how employee safety and employee engagement work together to enhance a safe environment for healthcare consumers. This interdependent relationship points to a powerful way to address patient safety. It gives healthcare leaders a fresh approach to measuring and managing the drivers of a culture of care that is the foundation of patient safety.
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Hospital patient safety
This was an interesting article and from the perspective of correlating various factors to patient safety, it was informative. From my personal experience, I try to stay out of hospitals because I view them as infection incubators - staph, MRSA, and similar infections make me want to minimize contact with health care facilities. I think a simple remedy would be for these institutions to practice basic sanitation. The staff should wash their hands before patient contact. Rooms should be sanitized upon patient discharge. It seems like our health care facilities have forgotten some of the lessons in hygiene that Florence Nightingale introduced during the Crimean War.
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