Category: Safety Culture

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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