The National Patient Safety Foundation made this shocking admissions last year: "psychological safety of the workforce... conspicuously absent or considered optional in many care-delivery organizations..Under these conditions, it is difficult for caregivers to to meet the challenge of making health care safe for patients they serve...makes it clear that the manager, or person in the gradient of hierarchy above the worker, possesses interests that are more important than the planned efforts of the health care worker."
Arizona Republic description:
" workers who asked not to be named because they fear retribution...current and former staffers allege that employees who point out flaws-or try to improve the system from within-are bullied by bosses who won't acknowledge the system is broken because to do so would damage their careers. Retaliation against whistle-blowers, discrimination and mismanagement have caused an exodus of nurses and doctors, insiders said, so that remaining employees are chronically overworked and stressed out."
