NSG 6620 Week 9 Discussion 1: Patient Safety

High-performing teams in healthcare organizations are the key to success in creating cultures of quality and safety. A high-performing team that works collaboratively enhances communication and patient safety. Healthcare teams that are not high performing and do not work well together are actually a liability in patient safety. For example, it is apparent to patients and their families when healthcare teams are not working collaboratively and communicating with each other.

Kaiser Permanente has developed a framework of communication that healthcare staff can use to communicate about their patients, called the situation-background-assessment-recommendation (SBAR) technique (Institute for Healthcare Improvement, n.d.). This technique can be used to foster a culture of teamwork and patient safety.

Using the readings for the week, the South University Online Library, and the Internet, respond to the following:

Discuss the role of the nurse leader in fostering and promoting initiatives related to patient safety.

Examine the relationship between patient safety and high-performing interprofessional healthcare teams.

Discuss how the use of communication strategies like SBAR improves the high-performing interprofessional healthcare teams.

Comment on the postings of at least two peers.

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Evaluation Criteria:

Discussed the role of the nurse leader in fostering and promoting initiatives related to patient safety.

Examined the relationship between patient safety and high-performing interprofessional healthcare teams.

Discussed how the use of communication strategies like SBAR improves the high-performing interprofessional healthcare teams.

Justified your answers with appropriate research and reasoning.

Commented on the postings of at least two peers.