HRO enables adaptive learning and reliability simultaneously. The article includes a history of HRO theory and provides an explanation for where HRO fits in modern organizational development. The article includes a description of collective mindfulness, a theme recurring in HRO literature. Weick, K., Sutcliffe, K., & Obstfeld, D. (2008). Organizing for High Reliability: Process of Collective […]
Author: Jared Padgett
Learning from Patient Safety Incidents: Creating Participative Risk Regulation in Healthcare
This article’s authors discuss the concept of participatory regulation, where the employees of a firm help regulate safety beyond the level of outside or governmental agencies. A comparison is made between aviation regulation and medical regulation, and the authors discuss how the two industries can share insight. This is a component of HRO theory, which emerged in part […]
Identifying Key Nursing and Team Behaviours to Achieve High Reliability
The goal of this study was to measure behavioral markers among nurses during critical events in order to assess the extent of high reliability. The research method involved a simulation in order to observe communication between nurses. The authors cite previous studies that indicate that teams are more reliable than individuals. Improving channels of communication […]
Patient Involvement in Patient Safety: Protocol for Developing an Intervention Using Patient Reports of Organisational Safety and Patient Incident Reporting
This article was designed to develop a plan for testing the validity and reliability of a new Patient Measure of Organisational Safety (PMOS) and the Patient Incident Reporting Tool (PIRT) in an effort to improve organizational safety in hospitals in the United Kingdom. The authors outlined an intensive, multi-year study in order to validate each […]
Workforce Perceptions of Hospital Safety Culture: Development and Validation of the Patient Safety Climate in Healthcare Organizations Survey
This article discussed the development and testing of the Patient Safety Climate in Healthcare Organizations (PSCHO) survey, which has been used to determine the safety culture in hospitals both in the United States and abroad. The study utilized HRO concepts and applied them specifically to healthcare, and this instrument will be a valuable tool for researcher’s […]