Incorporating Patient Safety Culture in Healthcare: A Change Management Perspective

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Introduction:
Change is occurring at a rapid pace in the health care industry, which further intensifying
the need of leaders to involve in the process (Neves & Schyns, 2018). Incorporating patient
safety culture in healthcare as a change management process with the assistance of
transformational leadership strategies would improve professional practice, reduce medication
errors and facilitate patient satisfaction. This paper will provide change management by
incorporating leadership theory and plan for research in the following paragraphs.
Discussion:
Patient safety and quality care are common concerns of the health care industry in
Australia since due to a shortage of workforce, health professionals are struggling to provide the
best quality of care to each patient who is seeking help (Van Rossum et al., 2016). Consequently,
the patients are experiencing the compromised quality of care, frequent medication error, and
unmet clinical needs. This compromised professional practice reduces the patient flow and
growth of the hospital. The documented literature suggested that incorporating patient safety
culture in the health care sectors will improve the quality of care, reduce medication errors,
increase the transparency of patients and increase patient satisfaction (Rosenbaum, More &
Steane, 2018). In order to bring the change, the hospital authorities are required to suitable adopt
leadership style such as transformational leadership. As stated transformational leadership is a
leadership theory where leaders work with the team in order to identify the needed change, create
the vision for guiding the changing through motivation and executive change with the
collaboration of other members (Steigenberger, 2015). This is the most effective form of
leadership where leaders work with employees by motivating them and sharing opinion. Taking
an insight into the situation, in order to incorporate the change such as patient safety culture in