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Informal risk assessment strategies in health care staff: an unrecognized source of resilience?

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RATIONALE:Recent reports indicate that approximately 10% of in-patients in UK hospitals are involved in an adverse event (these reports also state that 50% of these events are preventable). This is indeed a worrying finding, and indicates the need to look at how these incidents are handled or indeed, what is done to minimize their occurrence. The Department of Health, via the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) published a guide which is aimed at encouraging accurate reporting, learning from past events and changing the attitudes of key stakeholders (healthcare managers, frontline staf etc) towards risk taking and risk management. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:Our aim was to compare informally-learned and used risk assessment strategies volunteered by staff with the 'how to do it' guide published by the NPSA. We have compared each step of the NPSA guide with our empirical data relating to that activity. METHODS:We interviewed forty-eight healthcare professionals (doctors from several specialties; nurses from a variety of settings; and an array of allied healthcare professionals). We used semi-structured interviews in order to discuss participants' views on their everyday working life, working relationships and patient safety. RESULTS:Our results indicate that healthcare professionals develop their own unique way to approach the issue of patient safety and risk, based on their professional raining, seniority and role within the hospital. They did share the conviction that frontline and support staff need to have immediate and easy access to information about past adverse events. They see this as a powerful tool in minimizing the reoccurrence of the same errors/problems, as well as a vehicle to improve staff morale by feeling valued and having their opinion heard. CONCLUSIONS:We believe that patient safety and welfare can benefit from the adoption of a more flexible and person-centred approach to how risk assessments are carried out. Enriching formal guidelines such as the 'Risk Assessment made easy' document with successful techniques and strategies which healthcare staff have informally developed has the potential to not only improve patient safety (since it will be based on the accumulated experience and knowledge of such staff) but also foster higher levels of self esteem amongst healthcare professionals.

journal_name

J Eval Clin Pract

journal_title

Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors

Arfanis K,Smith A

doi

10.1111/j.1365-2753.2011.01759.x

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Has Abstract

pub_date

2012-12-01 00:00:00

pages

1140-6

issue

eissn

1356-1294

issn

1365-2753

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Informal risk assessment strategies in health care staff: an unrecognized source of resilience?