COURSE:

NR351 – Foundational Concepts for the Practicing RN

Step 1: Consider your present or past employer.

Step 2: Answer the discussion prompts below with explanation and detail.

• Paragraph one: Have you worked in a blame culture or culture of safety? Give specific examples to justify your answer.
• Paragraph two: Were you afraid to complete incident reports in clinical practice? Why or why not?
• Paragraph three: How can healthcare organizations incentivize staff to report errors and near misses? Describe a strategy to change the negative stigma that incident reports have.

References: Provide complete references for all citations.

SOLUTION

I worked as a nurse in a hospital where a colleague made a medication error that resulted in a patient’s adverse reaction. Due to the blame culture, the nurse responsible for the error was immediately reprimanded and faced disciplinary action without a thorough investigation into the contributing factors. The focus was solely on the nurse’s mistake, rather than…………………$5