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Questions:

1. Describe the characteristics of a high-reliability organization.
2. Describe your commitment to patient safety and workforce safety.
3. Explain the concept of competing commitments and give examples of competing commitments in your organization.
4. Explain how high reliability organizing provides a common framework for meeting competing commitments.
5. Explain how leader tools can be used to develop a culture of safety and high reliability. Which of the leader tools discussed in this chapter would be best for your organization?
6. Explain how social and cognitive skills can be used to develop a culture of safety and high reliability. Which of the suggested skills would be best for your organization?
7. Describe the importance of just culture in a culture of safety and high reliability. Which elements of just culture-beyond a culpability algorithm-does your organization need?
8. Describe the challenges of sustaining a culture of safety and high reliability. Which of the available paths to advancement would be best for your organization?
9. What are the key differences between equity and equality? Will an equality approach or an equitable approach have a bigger impact on addressing health disparities? Why?
10. Using your organization's data as well as some of the data sources highlighted in this chapter, what opportunities exist in your local community to achieve health equity.
11. Research at least four formal initiatives that are focused on addressing health equity at the national or local level. How are they measuring disparities? What actions are they taking at the workforce and leadership levels? At the patient and community levels? At the policy level?