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INTRODUCTION

Developing a safety culture in a healthcare organization needs strong

leadership planning and monitoring. All healthcare providers, patients
and carers, can help to improve the safety of patients.

The Roles and Responsibilities clearly explain the functions of the nurses in
the implementation of 13 Malaysian Patient Safety Goals. In some goals
their roles are complex while in others their roles are quite straight

forward. Nurses, who take the lead in the successful implementation and
achievement of these patient safety goals, need to be competent by

staying current with their knowledge on patient safety and skillful on all
nursing procedures.

As quoted by the Deputy Director General Of Health medical) “Patient
Safety is an integral part of Clinical Governance, as such, all

practitioners of clinical governance will automatically be advocates of
patient safety”

As front liners, nurses play an important role in ensuring patienty
safety. At times, they were blamed because they are right at the end of
“swiss cheese model”, although the incident happened because of “

system failure”

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