Greetings, Collaborative Members!
We’re excited to invite you to our upcoming Collaborative Conversation: Two Conversations, One Word: Why Physicians and Nurses Mean Different Things When We Say "Safety" focused on advancing patient safety through deeper understanding of reporting systems, professional dynamics, and change management.
Date: Thursday, June 18th
Time: Noon CT (10 am PT, 11 am MT, 1 pm ET)
Featured Speaker
Dr. Salvon-Harman is resolute in creating safety and belonging for patients and the healthcare workforce, providing strategic leadership in safety with deep operational expertise in implementing change and improving systems.
He brings extensive experience in high reliability, patient and workforce safety, human factors application to Root Cause Analysis, and system-level management of quality and safety. Dr. Salvon-Harman previously served as VP of Safety at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and as Chief Patient Safety Officer / VP of Quality and Medical Director of Infection Prevention and Control at Presbyterian Healthcare Services in New Mexico.
He is retired from the U.S. Public Health Service, where he dedicated 20 years to the Indian Health Service and the U.S. Coast Guard as both a clinician and leader. Dr. Salvon-Harman completed his Family Medicine residency at Carilion Health System in Roanoke, VA, and earned his medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, MA.
Learning Objectives:
Foundation – Understand
- Identify the two categories of safety events historically conflated within patient safety reporting systems.
- Explain how training pathways, credentialing structures, and professional histories have shaped each profession's relationship with event reporting.
Analytical – Analyze
- Analyze how the structure of an event reporting infrastructure influences who participates, what gets reported, and what receives organizational action.
- Compare three established change-management frameworks — Prosci ADKAR, the Bridges Transition Model, and Rogers' Diffusion of Innovations — and their relevance to navigating professional resistance in patient safety work.
Applied – Apply/Create
- Propose specific, frontline-actionable steps clinicians, patient safety, and quality improvement professionals can take to build cross-disciplinary alignment.
This session is designed to bring together frontline clinicians, patient safety leaders, and quality professionals for a practical, thought-provoking discussion on how we can strengthen collaboration and improve outcomes across disciplines.
We look forward to learning together.
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With sincere appreciation for our upcoming time together,
Kristi
