Organizational factors (ASC, Hospital)
Description
Determination of which contributing factor(s) related to the organization are known.
On-Screen Instructions
Field Type
Responses
- 1 Adequacy of budget
- 2 Assignment or work allocation
- 3 Clinical supervision
- 4 Culture of safety
- 5 Internal reporting
- 6 Job orientation or training
- 7 Managerial supervision
- 8 Management or leadership skills
- 9 Staff competencies
- 10 Staffing levels
- 11 Systems to identify risk
- 12 Temporary staffing
- 13 Other (please describe)
Adequacy of budget
An inadequate budget contributed to the event.
Includes
Unit budget
Facility budget
Excludes
Assignment or work allocation
Conditions related to staff assignment or work allocation contributed to the event.
Includes
Delegation of task or care to inadequately prepared staff;
Inappropriate staff assignment;
Staff assigned to the wrong unit or patient;
Temporarily assigned internal facility staff (e.g., relief, float, resource, travelers)
Excludes
Lack of staff understanding, technical skill, clinical knowledge (select “Staff competencies”)
Inadequate or disproportionate staffing levels (select “Staffing levels”)
Chronic or acute staffing problems (select “Staffing levels”)
Insufficient numbers and/or types of staff for patient care needs (select “Staffing levels”)
Clinical supervision
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”)
Culture of safety
The facility’s culture of safety (or lack thereof) contributed to the event.
Includes
Lack of acknowledgment of the high-risk nature of an organization's activities
An environment where individuals are unable to report adverse events or near misses without fear of reprimand or punishment
Collaboration across ranks is not encouraged to seek solution to patient safety problems
Lack of organizational commitment of resources to address safety concerns
Behavior or behaviors from 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)
Excludes
Internal reporting
Facility’s internal system for reporting adverse events or unsafe conditions contributed to the event.
Includes
Staff did not know how to make an internal report, or what should be reported
Internal reporting is not consistent
Excludes
Facility does not have an internal incident reporting system, or does not analyze internal reports to identify areas of risk (select “Systems to identify risk”)
Job orientation or training
The inadequacy of the facility’s job orientation or training contributed to the event.
Includes
Routine job training
In-service education
Competency training
Job orientation
Availability of training programs
Excludes
Lack of staff understanding, technical skill, clinical knowledge (select “Staff competencies”)
Managerial supervision
Ineffective supervision during or related to non-clinical processes contributed to the event.
Includes
General manager supervisory functions (e.g., attendance, accountability)
Excludes
Supervision related to clinical processes (e.g., inadequate supervision during learning process or according to facility policy) (select “Clinical supervision”)
Management or leadership skills
Ineffective or inadequate management or leadership skills contributed to the event.
Includes
Inaction around staff accountability
Lack of knowledge of staff competencies, follow-through
Inadequate skills in motivation, change, supervision
Excludes
Staff competencies
Inadequate staff competencies contributed to the event.
Includes
Lack of staff understanding, technical skill, clinical knowledge
Staff familiar with policy or procedure, but performed procedure incorrectly
Excludes
Competency training (select “Job orientation or training”)
Delegation of task or care to inadequately prepared staff (select “Assignment or work allocation”)
Inappropriate staff assignment (select “Assignment or work allocation”)
Staff assigned to the wrong unit or patient (select “Assignment or work allocation”)
Staffing levels
Staffing levels contributed to the event.
Includes
Inadequate or disproportionate staffing levels
Chronic or acute staffing problems
Inadequate or insufficient numbers and/or types of staff for patient care needs
Excludes
Inappropriate staff assignment (select “Assignment or work allocation”)
Systems to identify risk
Inadequate systems to identify risk in the facility contributed to the event.
Includes
Facility does not have an internal incident reporting system
Internal reports are not analyzed to identify areas of risk
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 were unaware of how to make an internal report, or what should be reported (select “Internal reporting”)
Temporary staffing
Conditions related to the use of temporary staff contributed to the event.
Includes
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) (select “Assignment or work allocation”)
Delegation of task or care to inadequately prepared staff (select “Assignment or work allocation”)
Inappropriate staff assignment (select “Assignment or work allocation”)
Staff assigned to the wrong unit or patient (select “Assignment or work allocation”)
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 staff was not adequately trained or oriented (select “Job orientation or training”)
Other (please describe)
Any other factor related to organizational factors, not included in the list above, which contributed to the event.
Guide for Use
History
Start Date | 2006 |
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End Date | n/a |
Change History | Spring 2012: PSRP implementation |
Field Name | cf_org_f |
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