ABSTRACT
In health care – where clinical science, jostles with sociology, psychology, political science, communication and organizational perspectives for explanatory power – significant questions regarding what is meant by the practical application of resilience arise because of the fundamental nature of resilience as, conceptually, a potential phenomenon. While the history of the patient safety movement over the last 15 years has led us to be concerned about the likely misapplication of resilience as merely another tool in the toolbox, we claim it has much more to offer than that.
