Patient Safety in Health Informatrics

1. What is the difference between synthesis and compromise?
2. Describe the impact of poor communication on teamwork and provide an example of how that serves to create patient safety challenges?
3. List and describe three attributes of effective teams.
4. What is the impact of the “doctor-nurse” game on patient safety?
5. What are some of the strategies the authors of chapter twenty two detail to demonstrate leadership commitment to patient safety?
6. Describe the difference in how hand-offs occur in healthcare vs. in other areas such as sports and industries such as air traffic control.

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