University of Tasmania
Browse

File(s) not publicly available

Creating safety by strengthening clinicians' capacity for reflexivity

journal contribution
posted on 2023-05-18, 02:56 authored by Iedema, R
This commentary explores the nature of creating safety in the here-and-now. Creating safety encompasses two dimensions: revisiting specific behaviours by focusing on substandard performance (reflection), and a more broad-ranging attention to everyday behaviours that are taken as given (reflexivity). The piece pays particular attention to this second dimension of creating safety. Two techniques that promote reflexivity are discussed: video-filming real-time, everyday clinical practice and inviting clinicians' feedback about their own footage, and reflecting on the knowledge and questions that patients and families have about their care, and about unexpected outcomes and clinical incidents. The piece concludes that feedback about everyday practice using these methods is critical to enhancing the safety of everyday activity.

History

Publication title

BMJ (Clinical Research Edition)

Volume

20

Issue

Suppl 1

Pagination

i83-i86

ISSN

0959-8138

Department/School

School of Nursing

Publisher

B M J Group

Place of publication

United Kingdom

Repository Status

  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Clinical health not elsewhere classified

Usage metrics

    University Of Tasmania

    Exports

    RefWorks
    BibTeX
    Ref. manager
    Endnote
    DataCite
    NLM
    DC