Ep 207: Normalization of Deviance and Production Pressure for CRNAs

When you look at how critical mistakes happen in the workplace, the normalization of deviance is often the culprit. You can find examples of this in all different areas of life, but CRNAs frequently face the pressure of doing things as fast as we can to meet the demands of production pressure. Today we want to explore this idea of normalization of deviance with Randy Cornelius, DNP, ARNP, CRNA, and discuss how CRNAs can work to overcome this.   Here are some of the things you’ll learn on this show: The reason this topic is so important and examples of how this occurs. (10:00) What went wrong during the Challenger space shuttle disaster. (20:18) Production pressure in nurse anesthesia and how it causes normalization of deviance. (24:06) How can we prevent this normalization? (27:37) How this occurs in the OR and some cases we’ve seen. (31:13)   Visit us online: http://beyondthemaskpodcast.com  Get the CE certificate here: https://beyondthemaskpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Beyond-the-Mask-CE-Cert-FILLABLE.pdf