Patient Safety in Nursing Practice

Farquhar, Marybeth; Sharp, Beth A. Collins; Clancy, Carolyn M.

doi:10.1016/j.aorn.2007.08.009

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“…Equally important is that nurses are most often identified with safety concerns (Weingart et al 2007). For all of these reasons, nurses are ideally placed to drive the safety and quality agenda within health care [Canadian Nursing Association (CNA) 2009;Farquhar et al 2007;International Council of Nurses 2002;Richardson & Storr 2010].…”

Section: Nurses and Providing Safe Carementioning

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Patient safety: nursing students' perspectives and the role of nursing education to provide safe care

Vaismoradi

Salsali

Marck

2011

International Nursing Review

114

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VAISMORADI M., SALSALI M. & MARCK P. (2011) Patient safety: nursing students' perspectives and the role of nursing education to provide safe care. International Nursing Review58, 434–442 Background and Aim: Nurses as the largest group of healthcare providers are in the best position to improve patient safety. In preparing future nurses, nurse educators have an important role in developing the knowledge, skills and attitudes among nursing students related to patient safety. The aim of this study was to explore Iranian nursing students' perspectives regarding patient safety and the role of nursing education in developing their capabilities to provide safe care. Methods: A purposeful sampling strategy was used to recruit 17 junior and senior nursing students for qualitative, semi‐structured interviews. Content analysis of the interview transcripts was conducted to identify several relevant themes. Findings: Three main themes emerged from the data analysis: ‘safety as patient comfort’, ‘not being knowledgeable or experienced enough’ and ‘being helped to internalise the principles and values of patient safety’. The third theme consisted of two categories: ‘adopting a humanistic approach towards patients’ and ‘practising conscientiously in the workplace’. Conclusion: The present study adds insights on how nursing students understand and may be helped to internalise concepts of patient safety within their practice. Nursing education curriculum designers need to go beyond theoretical concepts of patient safety education and devise strategies to increase the application of safety knowledge and competencies in nursing practice.

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Section: Nurses and Providing Safe Carementioning

confidence: 99%

Patient safety: nursing students' perspectives and the role of nursing education to provide safe care

Vaismoradi

Salsali

Marck

2011

International Nursing Review

114

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“…To transform our healthcare system, it is essential to have the support of leaders and managers at all levels in a wide variety of organisations (Henderson et al. , 2006; Farquhar et al., 2007; Bondas, 2009).…”

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A qualitative study on Iranian nurses’ experiences and perspectives on how to provide safe care in clinical practice

Vaismoradi

Salsali

Turunen

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Journal of Research in Nursing

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Nurses are the healthcare providers who are well positioned to strengthen patient safety through providing safe care in clinical practice. The purpose of this study was to explore and describe the experiences and perspectives of Iranian nurses in relation to how to provide safe care in clinical practice. A qualitative design by using a content analysis approach was applied for the data gathering and analysis. After employing a purposive sampling to choose 16 bachelor's degree nurses working in the medical and surgical wards of a referral teaching hospital in an urban area of Iran, semi-structured interviews were conducted to collect data. During the data analysis, three main themes emerged: 'providing safe care as the patient's right', with the subthemes: 'feeling a personal commitment' and 'incorporating patients' feelings of safety into providing safe care', 'encouraging reciprocal accountability in healthcare professionals' and 'leadership commitment to safe care'. The findings suggest that educators should provide more information during nurses' education to focus on the moral duty to provide safe care. In addition, the provision of safe care needs the commitment and collaboration of all healthcare professionals, as well as the leadership of nursing for removing obstacles to nurses' efforts to making the healthcare system safer.

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“…Responses to risks of reducing patient safety should be proactive through identifying and managing them before they adversely influence individuals or organizations (Attree & Newbold 2009, Boakes 2009). In this regard, nurse leaders are ideally placed to instigate health-care improvement principles (McGillis Hall & Doran 2007, Norris 2009) and promote essential reforms required to ensure the delivery of safe care (Farquhar et al 2007, Canadian Nurses Association 2009). Attempts should be made within nursing to identify complex contextual factors that contribute to nurse leadersÕ effectiveness and introduce competencies that will be needed in the future by nurse managers in order to create leadership development programmes for improving patient safety (Huston 2008, Kirk 2009, Riley 2009, Richardson & Storr 2010, Bae 2011.…”

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Facilitating safe care: a qualitative study of Iranian nurse leaders

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Aim The purpose of this study was to explore and describe how nurse leaders facilitate safe care from the perspectives of both nurses and nurse leaders. Background The health‐care system’s success in improving patient safety pivots on nursing leadership. However, there is a lack of knowledge in the international literature about how nurse leaders facilitate provision of safe care and reaching the goal of a safe health‐care system. Method A qualitative design using a content analysis approach was applied for data gathering and analysis. In this study, 20 nurses (16 nurses and four head nurses) working in a referral teaching hospital in Tehran, Iran, were recruited through purposive sampling. Semi‐structured interviews and 10 hours of structured observations were conducted to collect data. Results The data analysis resulted in three main themes: ‘providing environmental prerequisites for safe nursing practice’, ‘uniting and integrating health‐care providers’, and ‘creating an atmosphere of safe care’. Conclusion The results indicate that to facilitate providing safe care, nurse leaders should improve nurses’ working conditions, develop the nurses’ practical competencies, assign duties to nurses according to their skills and capabilities, administer appropriate supervision, improve health‐care providers’ professional relationships and encourage their collaboration, empower nurses and reward their safe practice. Implications for nursing management Approaching the challenge of patient safety requires the health‐care system to combine its efforts and strategies with nursing leadership in its vital role of facilitating safe care and improving patient safety.

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Patient Safety in Nursing Practice

Cited by 13 publications

References 5 publications

Patient safety: nursing students' perspectives and the role of nursing education to provide safe care

Patient safety: nursing students' perspectives and the role of nursing education to provide safe care

A qualitative study on Iranian nurses’ experiences and perspectives on how to provide safe care in clinical practice

Facilitating safe care: a qualitative study of Iranian nurse leaders

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