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Organizational factors (ASC, Hospital)

Organizational factors (ASC, Hospital)

Description

Determination of which contributing factor(s) related to the organization are known.

On-Screen Instructions

Field Type

Responses


Adequacy of budget

An inadequate budget contributed to the event.

Includes

  • Unit budget

  • Facility budget

Excludes

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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”)

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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

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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

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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”)

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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”)

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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”)

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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

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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

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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

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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”)

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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

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Other (please describe)

Any other factor related to organizational factors, not included in the list above, which contributed to the event.

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Guide for Use

History

Start Date

2006

End Date

n/a

Change History

Spring 2012: PSRP implementation

Field Name

cf_org_f