Integrating Principles of Safety Culture and Just Culture Into Nursing Homes : Lessons From the Pandemic

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Decades of concerns about the quality of care provided by nursing homes have led state and federal agencies to create layers of regulations and penalties. As such, regulatory efforts to improve nursing home care have largely focused on the identification of deficiencies and assignment of sanctions. The current regulatory strategy often places nursing home teams and government agencies at odds, hindering their ability to build a culture of safety in nursing homes that is foundational to health care quality. Imbuing safety culture into nursing homes will require nursing homes and regulatory agencies to acknowledge the high-risk nature of post-acute and long-term care settings, embrace just culture, and engage nursing home staff and stakeholders in actions that are supported by evidence-based best practices. The response to the COVID-19 pandemic prompted some of these actions, leading to changes in nursing survey and certification processes as well as deployment of strike teams to support nursing homes in crisis. These actions, coupled with investments in public health that include funds earmarked for nursing homes, could become the initial phases of an intentional renovation of the existing regulatory oversight from one that is largely punitive to one that is rooted in safety culture and proactively designed to achieve meaningful and sustained improvements in the quality of care and life for nursing home residents.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:23

Enthalten in:

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association - 23(2022), 2 vom: 25. Feb., Seite 241-246

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Gaur, Swati [VerfasserIn]
Kumar, Rajeev [VerfasserIn]
Gillespie, Suzanne M [VerfasserIn]
Jump, Robin L P [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Journal Article
Patient safety culture
Quality improvement
Skilled nursing facility
State surveyors

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Date Completed 10.02.2022

Date Revised 05.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.jamda.2021.12.017

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM334945976