Answer 3 for HCA 675 What are the differences you see between a culture of accountability, where people are held accountable for the mistakes they make, and the Just Culture approach, where mistakes are not punished, but seen as methods of learning? 

Thank you for making an informative contribution to the present discussion. Indeed, a just culture ensures the elimination of victimization of individuals in an organization as shared accountability is facilitated. Moreover, the presence of a just culture facilitates the recognition of the fact that individual practitioners cannot become accountable to system failings that are beyond their control. Moreover, such a culture similarly recognizes that various active or individual errors represent predictable interactions between human operators as well as their environment’s system (Boysen, 2013). On the other hand, the culture of accountability ensures that a person becomes liable to any mistake that they commit. This ensures that healthcare practitioners become very keen, which minimizes the presence of aberrations. Thus, a culture of accountability ensures the presence of reduced mistakes in the delivery of care, which makes the whole process safer as opposed to the just culture.

References

Boysen, P. G. (2013). Just culture: a foundation for balanced accountability and patient safety. Ochsner Journal, 13(3), 400-406.