The Patient Safety Battles-Put on Your Armor

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The patient safety arena offers great reward yet great personal and professional risk for its stakeholders. In the final analysis, the patient safety battles include both the conflicts of interests between people and the eternal battle against organizational inertia-a faceless enemy that never sleeps. Patient safety champions must be prepared to arm themselves for the trials they will face. We borrow and adapt an ancient metaphor from the past because it is as pertinent to today as it was many years ago. Our safety champions each need the helmet of knowledge to speak to the mind, the breast plate of values that protects their heart, a shield of faith that will sustain personal attacks, the powerful sword of communication to lay bare the barriers of resistance, and the evidence of truth that binds the armor together. Finally, they need to be shod with the readiness to move quickly as servant leaders in every situation.

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