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    the United States (Hospital Safety Score, 2013). Today, QSEN employs an enhanced approach and expanded outreach (Dolansky & Moore, 2013). The QSEN initiative shows promise, but to achieve measurable improvements in patient safety, health care organizations must also embrace a culture of safety. The QSEN Mission Today Ten years after its inception, the QSEN mission continues to evolve. The Leapfrog Group recently reported little evidence of improvement of quality and safety in hospitals. QSEN responded

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    Reflective Report

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    and that the information is supported by evidence from reputable authors. The only problem my group experienced was time management. Some of the group members come really late to meetings which causes delay in doing the work. The sixth stage is ‘high performance’. At the end of the whole group project we were able to surpass our expectations, because we all put a great effort and practice into the group work and when we presented our ideas we were excellent. My role in the presentation: My

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    striving towards becoming a high reliability organization 8 years ago. To make this happen, they made patient safety their systems core value throughout all of their hospitals. They accomplished this by hiring an outside company, who was known for their safety excellence, to train all of their staff members to become patient oriented. This process allowed them to develop a culture of safety in which they believed would lead them to become a high reliability organization. These processes completely

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    healthcare industry becoming more competitive, healthcare organizations like Long-Term Care facilities are finding better ways to improve quality, safety, and their medical outcomes (Schulingkamp & Latham, 2015). Many LTC organizations are improving their performance of how they operate in delivering care by following the elements of a high-reliability organization, as well as the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program criteria. By LTC organizations following the Baldrige Model criteria, it inheres to

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    software in an effort of transforming their culture as a high reliability organization (Larson & Kowalowski, Jan 31, 2013). Through the transition, CVPH now uses Avantas to do real-time scheduling that is more quickly and accurate in fulfilling staffing when needed while meeting the FTE requirements (Larson & Kowalowski, Jan 31, 2013). Through this culture change in providing better staffing ratios in an effort to achieve a high reliability organization, it now allows CVPH medical staff spending more time

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    risk to any company’s security. While some security professionals advocate that advanced technology is the best solution for mitigating cyber security risks, human errors in the workplace can be prevented with a management led strategy. High Reliability Organizations (HROs), which focus on the human factor of failure, challenge executives and management to transform the organizational culture of a company into a living, breathing firewall. Although sociotechnical errors are common, HROs are able to

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    applications that enable organizations to maintain constant and continuous availability. We are living in a 24/7 world. Brick and mortar businesses that only needed to worry about the security of their hard assets after closing for the day now have websites allowing customers to shop online at their convenience. Simply establishing a web presence is not enough to compete in the market. Business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-customer (B2C) commerce requires a high-availability strategy with

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    crisis has become a priority for every healthcare organization, with the realization that most errors are not caused by reckless staff, but by poor systems and processes (Institute of Medicine, 2000). Consequently, healthcare has begun to look to outside organizations in order to find solutions, by examining industries that are considered highly reliable, despite operating in hazardous situations. The lessons learned by these Highly Reliable Organizations (HROs) can be used to promote safe and reliable

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    Crisis is a complex, devastating event or event that burdens the abilities of the people who are trying to manage and live with the event that has occurred. As well as the effects it has on society, organizations, groups, or individuals as well as other things trying to exist during the event. One example of Crisis is the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, after the United States failed attempt to overthrow Castro Regime at the Bay of Pigs; Castro began moving Soviet Nuclear missile into to Cuba

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    Reliability and Validity

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    Reliability and Validity Dede Kendrick BSHS/382 January 16, 2012 Angela Heads Reliability and Validity Evaluating human services is a task that can be very complex. People can have different interpretations of the same event. Another concern is that people are not always honest. Therefore, human services will gain from effective, high quality evaluations of data collection methods. This requires that the data collection methods supply accurate and dependable information. This paper will

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