Category: Patient Safety

Safety Culture & Virtue 4: Security

By Gayle Porter
May 9, 2025

Nurses are on the frontline of violence. And patients, already vulnerable from disease and disability, are at particular risk to the volatile environment of a healthcare organization. The current

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Safety Culture & Virtue 3: Families

By Gayle Porter
April 25, 2025

You might think that the stress of family responsibilities and relationships could cause problems for a patient trying to recover from illness, but it’s actually the opposite. In my

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Safety Culture & Virtue 2: End of Life Care

By Gayle Porter
April 11, 2025

Some of my fondest memories from being a nurse were the times that I end of life care. It is a critical moment for the patient, but it’s also

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Virtue Symptom #1: Voluntary Reporting Occurs

By Gayle Porter
March 28, 2025

Patient safety reporting is often depersonalized to provide distance and objectivity during an investigation and to help the team see opportunities clearly. But if we lean on system issues because we

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Safety Culture and Virtue

By Gayle Porter
March 14, 2025

Over the past few weeks, I have wrestled with the idea of safety culture. Safety culture is itself a symptom of something that is difficult to pin down: virtue.

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NASA, Spaceships, and Hospital Administration

By Gayle Porter
October 21, 2024

After creating a flawless, foolproof plan, NASA launched Apollo 13 on another mission to the moon in 1970. But they didn’t just sign off and watch the trip. They

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