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Why don’t healthcare providers follow the rules? Part 2 by Pat Iyer

Normalization of deviance occurs when a provider, such as a nurse, knowingly disregards a safety practice, like using two patient identifiers to verify patient identity. Repeated deviation from the safe practices tends to “normalize” the risky behavior in the nurse’s … Continue reading

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Why don’t healthcare providers follow the rules? Part 1 by Pat Iyer

I’ve been updating a chapter on the roots of patient injury for the fourth edition of Nursing Malpractice. I’ve been thinking about the reasons people don’t follow policies and procedures. Back in the 1980s when I ran a nursing hospital’s … Continue reading

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