James Reason's Swiss Cheese Theory

James Reason's Swiss Cheese Theory

Introduction

According to the James Reason's Swiss Cheese Theory a nurse-patient relationship requires high standards of ethics and Integrity. For instance, there are certain situations where patient is handicapped due to his inadequate knowledge. In such cases, doctors must take full responsibility of overall medication process of such patients. An act of irresponsibility and greed in a healthcare context can have detrimental effects on overall health care system and behavior of individuals seeking healthcare services. There are many laws, which regulate healthcare services and try to ensure adherence to ethical and medical standards.

The Health Promotion Entities and other such organizations have specific facilities for programs of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, which are independent of the facilities of the medical care (Yardley, 2008). This is accompanied by an awareness campaign which educates the member to attend this place. The goal of healthcare administrator must be to ensure quality healthcare services to its employees and patients through:

Caring and compassionate staff and services

Clear communication and explanation about conditions and treatment

Effective collaboration between clinicians, patients and others

A clean and safe care environment

Continuity of care and good access to care

Clinical excellence

Discussion

The Effect of Trust

According to many medical researchers and James Reason's Swiss Cheese Theory, Trust plays of the role of medication in a healthcare relationship. It has been stated that the relationship, which is based on mutual trust provides a therapeutic effect, although such claims are not supported through much research data. The nurse-doctor relationship is directly effects that healthcare outcome because it directly effects patient satisfaction, adherence and continuity of treatment with an assigned physician. The importance of trust based relationship can be analyzed by the fact that, effectiveness of treatment is directly related to patient's ability to disclose his/her issues and information for timely and accurate diagnoses. Therefore, patient's behavior is directly linked to the effectiveness of treatment. While, strong relationship is directly related to trust in a relationship. Trust also indicates s quality of relationship. Positive outcome in healthcare services is related effective patient-doctor relationship (Latifi, 2008).

Assessing relationship at the macro level, the effectiveness of relationship is also based on trust in an organizational as well as, societal context. It means that it is an inherent requirement, which leads to effective healthcare system, and it is generally defined as collective good relative to social capital. The effective relationships, at macro-level, lead to ...