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Ms. Smith's daughter Kali is a patient in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Ms. Smith diligently pumps her breasts to provide nourishment to her newborn. After pumping, Ms. Smith gives the milk to the nurse, who labels it and places it in the refrigerator. The next day, the nurse prepares a feeding for Kali. After administering the feeding, the nurse notices that the milk is labeled with Ms. Brown's name.

By definition, this is a serious safety event. The organization takes immediate action: it notifies both Ms. Smith and Ms. Brown, and tests Ms. Brown for a variety of infectious diseases. In addition, the error is thoroughly investigated by a team that includes nurses, nursing assistants, physicians, and staff from infection prevention, risk management, quality, information technology, and administration. The team conducts a root cause analysis to determine the underlying cause of the breast milk mis‐administration and creates a corrective action plan. The executive leadership team and board of directors review the information and approve the corrective action plan. Everyone at the hospital expresses confidence that the processes put into place will prevent this event from happening again. Unfortunately, within a few months, the incorrect breast milk is administered to a baby in the pediatric department.

The Institute of Medicine (IOM, 1999) described the safety of U.S. health care in To Err is Human. They suggested that 44,000–98,000 people die in hospitals each year from medical errors that could have been prevented and provided a roadmap to safety. The IOM outlined strategies to prevent errors, including enhancing knowledge about safety; identifying and learning from errors; raising expectations for improving safety; and implementing safety systems in health care organizations to ensure safe practices at the patient care delivery level. Seventeen years later, Makary and Daniel (2016) estimated that medical errors cause 251,000 deaths each year. This makes medical errors the third leading cause of death in the Unites States (U.S.) after heart disease and cancer.

Safety is the responsibility of every nurse and each member of the interprofessional team. Despite the heavy focus on quality and safety, errors continue to occur. Nursing managers and leaders are in a unique position to foster a culture of high reliability. This chapter will describe the current state of quality and safety in health care organizations. After defining and evaluating the characteristics of HRO s, the chapter will analyze the impact of QSEN competencies on high reliability. Last, the chapter will describe the role of the nurse in creating a culture of safety and identify resources nurse leaders can use in a journey toward high reliability.