Culture of hiding mistakes

  Accountability This discussion is based on a story of an 18-month old named Josie King that lost her life because of a medical error. Josie's mother used the settlement money to create the Josie King Foundation to help reduce the mortality rate by encouraging hospitals to adopt patient-safety programs. Read the Josie's Story Teaches Hospitals How to Become Safer https://www.healthleadersmedia.com/clinical-care/josies-story-teaches-hospitals-how-become-safer Read the following safety techniques for patients: For Caregivers https://josieking.org/resource-center/for-caregivers/ Patient Safety https://josieking.org/from-the-experts/patient-safety/ Complete the Patient Safety - Quality Improvement activity that will give you some insight into the problem. https://josieking.org/patient-safety-quality-improvement-modules/ Read each of the six (6) modules lessons. Take the qui z for each. Watch the Josie King Story video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=JeVcXhvPvbU&feature=youtu.be Write your feelings about Josie and the culture of hiding mistakes and the approximately 98,000 persons that die each year in America because of medical errors.