Safe and cost effective care
Safe and cost effective care
Paper details:
Select option ‘I or option 2 (but not both) to discuss:
Option 1: Discuss the potential and actual impact of national patient safety resources. initiatives and
regulations in your work setting. Explain how authority gradients influence teamwork and patient safety.
Authority Gradient refers to the established. and/or perceived. command and decision-making power
hierarchy in a Team. Crew or Group situation, and also how balanced the distribution of this power is
experienced within the Team. Crew or Group. Concentration of power in one person leads to a steep gradient.
while more democratic and inclusive involvement of others results in a shallow gradient.
Option 2: Discuss a time when you used the interdisciplinary team approach to provide safe, effective. quality
care for a difficult, comprehensive patient case. Discuss all disciplines involved in the care of this patient and
how this discipline contributed to the quality care!