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WalkRounds involve senior leaders with frontline staff

Patient Safety Monitor, November 1, 2008

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If staff members in your facility think their concerns are not being heard or taken seriously by senior leadership, it might be time for you to start doing patient safety rounds or expand your existing program. Not only can patient safety rounds find trouble spots that leaders may not have known existed, they also improve the culture among staff members.

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