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Description
Determination of which contributing factor(s) related to the organization are known.
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An inadequate budget contributed to the event.
Includes
Unit budget
Facility budget
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Conditions related to staff assignment or work allocation contributed to the event.
Includes
delegation Delegation of task or care to inadequately prepared staff;
inappropriate Inappropriate staff assignment;
staff Staff assigned to the wrong unit or patient;
temporarily Temporarily assigned internal facility staff (e.g., relief, float, resource, travelers)
Excludes
lack Lack of staff understanding, technical skill, clinical knowledge (select “Staff competencies”); inadequate “Staff competencies”)
Inadequate or disproportionate staffing levels, chronic levels (select “Staffing levels”)
Chronic or acute staffing problems , insufficient (select “Staffing levels”)
Insufficient numbers and/or types of staff for patient care needs (select “Staffing levels”)N only: frequent changes in facility or unit staff (select “Staffing turnover”“Staffing levels”)
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Ineffective supervision during or related to clinical processes contributed to the event.
Includes
inadequate supervision during learning process (e.g., walking away from a resident preforming their second central line);
inadequate supervision according to facility policy (e.g., anesthesiologist fails to supervise a CRNA according to policy)
Excludes
supervision of non-clinical processes (select “Managerial supervision”);
inadequate staff competencies (select “Staff competencies”);
tasks performed by untrained or inadequately trained staff (select “Job orientation or training”)
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The facility’s culture of safety (or lack thereof) contributed to the event.
Includes
lack Lack of acknowledgment of the high-risk nature of an organization's activities;
an An environment where individuals are unable to report errors or near misses without fear of reprimand or punishment;
collaboration Collaboration across ranks is not encouraged to seek solution to patient safety problems;
lack Lack of organizational commitment of resources to address safety concerns;
behavior Behavior or behaviors from pharmacists, providers or staff that undermine a culture of safety, including overt actions such as verbal outbursts and physical threats, as well as passive activities, such as refusing to perform tasks or uncooperative attitudes (e.g., reluctance or refusal to answer questions, return phone calls or pages, condescending language, impatience with questions or consistently arriving late without regard to team or patient)
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Facility’s internal system for reporting adverse events or unsafe conditions contributed to the event.
Includes
staff were unaware of Staff did not know how to make an internal report, or what should be reported; internal
Internal reporting is not consistent
Excludes
facility Facility does not have an internal incident reporting system, or does not analyze internal reports to identify areas of risk (select “Systems “Systems to identify risk”risk”)
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The inadequacy of the facility’s job orientation or training contributed to the event.
Includes
routine Routine job training;
inIn-service education;
competency Competency training;
job Job orientation;
availability Availability of training programs
Excludes
lack Lack of staff understanding, technical skill, clinical knowledge (select “Staff competencies”“Staff competencies”)
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Ineffective supervision during or related to non-clinical processes contributed to the event.
Includes
general manager supervisory functions (e.g., attendance, accountability)
supervision related to clinical processes (e.g., inadequate supervision during learning process or according to facility policy) (select “Clinical supervision”)
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Ineffective or inadequate management or leadership skills contributed to the event.
Includes
inaction Inaction around staff accountability;
lack Lack of knowledge of staff competencies, follow-through;
inadequate Inadequate skills in motivation, change, supervision
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Pharmacy’s system for processing prescriptions or providing customer service is overcapacity and contributed to the event.
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Excludes
individual Individual staff member’s feelings of stress due to normal pharmacy operation (select “Human “Human or environmental factors: Pharmacist or staff Stress”); inadequate Stress”)
Inadequate staffing levels (select “Staffing levels”“Staffing levels”)
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Actual and/or perceived requirement to deliver a service (i.e. a prescription) quickly.
Includes
close Close to closing time,
management Management time-to-completion policies,
pressure Pressure created by pharmacy wait times or prescription backlog (also select “Pharmacy “Pharmacy wait times or prescription backlog”backlog”)
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Inadequate staff competencies contributed to the event.
Includes
lack Lack of staff understanding, technical skill, clinical knowledge; staff
Staff familiar with policy or procedure, but performed procedure incorrectly
Excludes
competency Competency training (select “Job “Job orientation or training”); delegation training”)
Delegation of task or care to inadequately prepared staff (select “Assignment “Assignment or work allocation”); inappropriate allocation”)
Inappropriate staff assignment (select “Assignment “Assignment or work allocation”)
A, H, N only: staff assigned to the wrong unit or patient (select “Assignment or work allocation”)
Includes
inadequate Inadequate or disproportionate staffing levels; chronic
Chronic or acute staffing problems; inadequate
Inadequate or insufficient numbers and/or types of staff for patient care needs
Excludes
inappropriate Inappropriate staff assignment (select “Assignment or work allocation”)
Gaining or losing employees contributed to the event
Includes
frequent changes in facility or unit staff
Excludes
one-time change in staff assignment or work allocation (select “Assignment or work allocation”“Assignment or work allocation”)
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Ineffective supervision contributed to the event.
Includes
inadequate Inadequate supervision during learning process
N only: inadequate supervision of social services staff, activities staff, dietary staff, office staff, clinical staff, etc.
Excludes
inadequate Inadequate staff competencies (select “Staff competencies”); tasks “Staff competencies”)
Tasks performed by untrained or inadequately trained staff (select “Job “Job orientation or training”training”)
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Inadequate systems to identify risk in the facility contributed to the event.
Includes
facility Facility does not have an internal incident reporting system;
internal Internal reports are not analyzed to identify areas of risk;
no No system in place to identify areas of risk that have not already resulted in an adverse event or harm to a patient
Excludes
staff Staff were unaware of how to make an internal report, or what should be reported (select “Internal reporting”“Internal reporting”)
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or new staff
Conditions related to the use of temporary or new staff contributed to the event.
Includes
agency Agency or independent staff filling a short-term position or a vacant shift
Excludes
temporarily assigned internal facility staff (e.g., relief, float, resource, travelers); delegation Delegation of task or care to inadequately prepared staff ; inappropriate staff assignment (select “Assignment “Assignment or work allocation”allocation”); A, H, N only: staff assigned to the wrong unit or patient (select “Assignment or work allocation”); inadequate
Inadequate staffing levels, chronic or acute staffing problems, inadequate or insufficient numbers and/or types of staff for patient care needs (select “Staffing levels”); new “Staffing levels”)
New staff was not adequately trained or oriented (select “Job “Job orientation or training”training”)
N only: frequent changes in facility or unit staff (select “Staffing turnover”)
P only: inadequate or Inadequate or disproportionate staffing levels (select “Staffing levels”)
Other (please describe)
Any other factor related to organizational factors, not included in the list above, which contributed to the event.
Includes
P only: bundling Bundling error
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Guide for Use
Use the following definitions to guide your responses under “Organizational Factors.”
“Staff competencies” are identified fundamental knowledge, skills, and abilities defined in terms of the behaviors needed for successful job performance (typically specific to both job role and organization)
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History
Start Date | 2006 |
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End Date | n/a |
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2013: PSRP implementation | |
Field Name | cf_org_f |
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