Patient Safety Plan Paper
You have been named the new safety officer for a metropolitan hospital. Your department manages all issues related to safety at the hospital. The hospital has recently experienced increasing bad outcomes and patient safety violations that are threatening hospital accreditation. Your department has identified the need to change the patient safety culture within the facility. As safety officer you will review current patient safety policies and procedures and create a new patient safety plan and training program improve the safety culture and try to reduce bad outcomes and decrease patient safety violations. 
The patient safety plan must direct actions to improve patient safety and reduce risks to patients through a culture that encourages:
• Recognizing and reporting risks to patient safety and medical errors
• Reviewing reported risks to identify causal factors and process changes necessary to improve systems
• Determining and initiating the best solutions for eliminating and reducing identified risks, hazards or behaviors
• Internal reporting of identified risks and details of all corrective and improvement actions
• Minimizing individual blame or retribution for involvement in a medical or care error
• Sharing that knowledge and information to impact behavioral changes within all levels of the organizational structure 
The patient safety plan must provide a systematic, coordinated and continuous approach to all improvement efforts. The plan must encourage the establishment of mechanisms to promote effective responses to actual events. The plan should also encourage an ongoing proactive reduction in medical, medication, and care errors by integrating patient safety objectives into new and existing processes.
The paper should be at least 2,000 words in length. The paper should include at least eight references. Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.