Healthcare Quality Concepts
Revisiting Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs
Reading Time: 14 minutes Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is a theory by Abraham Maslow, which puts forward that people are motivated by five basic categories of needs: physiological, safety, love, esteem, and self-actualization. Maslow’s hierarchy […]
Measuring Safety Culture
Reading Time: < 1 minute Safety culture refers to the way patient safety is thought about and implemented within an organization and the structures and processes in place to support this. Safety climate is a […]
On patient safety culture and working environment
Reading Time: < 1 minute Background: Patient safety culture is defined as a product of individual and group values, attitudes, perceptions, competencies, and patterns of behavior that determine the commitment to, and the style and proficiency […]
11 Tenets of a Safety Culture – The Joint Commission
Reading Time: < 1 minute Safety culture is the sum of what an organization is and does in the pursuit of safety. The Patient Safety Systems (PS) chapter of The Joint Commission accreditation manuals defines […]