Category: Risk Management

Safety Culture & Virtue 9: Mentors

By Gayle Porter
August 8, 2025

We have a lot of rules to live by – things that were learned the hard way by some and are now obvious to the modestly observant. Everything from basic

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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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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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Free Public Health Infectious Disease Training

By Gayle Porter
July 19, 2024

I have exciting news if you are a Texas healthcare nerd whose heart skips a beat at the words “infectious disease.” I love studying things like how to measure

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