ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the history of the Resilient Health Care Network (RHCN) by documenting at a high level the overarching interests of the corpus of RHC activities. The RHCN has establish a body of work, and built the credentials of the network. The RHCN has, indicates, 'facilitate the interaction, and collaboration among people who are interested in applying Resilience Engineering to health care–practitioners and researchers alike'. RHCN has worked since 2011 to facilitate the interaction and collaboration among practitioners and researchers interested in applying concepts from resilience engineering to health care and patient safety. The everyday clinical work is where things happen frequently, and it is the unfurling of daily activities of frontline clinicians that explains people's contributions to RHC. This is centrally about how people actually get their work done, regularly and routinely, and how they in most cases manage to keep patients safe despite all sorts of pressures and resource constraints.
