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It's Always Something: Hospital Nurses Managin... [Clin Nurs Res. 2012] - PubMed - NCBI

It's Always Something: Hospital Nurses Managin... [Clin Nurs Res. 2012] - PubMed - NCBI

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New Study Highlights the Nurse’s Role in Keeping Patients Safe

In this new AHRQ-funded study, nurses at a 274-bed Midwest academic medical center describe the challenges of keeping their patients safe amid constraints within their institution’s patient safety culture. The findings helped develop a new framework to manage risk that recognizes the ongoing challenges for nursing staff to better manage patient safety. A more in-depth understanding of how nurses view and manage risk can help to improve their hospital’s patient safety efforts, according to the authors. The study, “It’s Always Something: Hospital Nurses Managing Risk,” was published December 4, 2012 in Clinical Nursing Research. Select to access the abstract on PubMed.®
 It's Always Something: Hospital Nurses Managin... [Clin Nurs Res. 2012] - PubMed - NCBI
Clin Nurs Res. 2012 Dec 4. [Epub ahead of print]

It's Always Something: Hospital Nurses Managing Risk.

Source

University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA.

Abstract

The purpose of this qualitative study was to describe the process by which hospital staff nurses keep patients safe within their hospital safety culture. Findings from this study culminated in a grounded theory of Managing Risk, the process by which nurses keep their patients safe from harm. Participants perceived that their patients were always at risk (it's always something), thus keeping patients safe was a continual, repetitive process of managing risk to prevent harm to patients. Stages of this process included risk assessment, risk recognition, prioritization, and protective interventions. Practicing nurses can use this theory to understand and articulate their critical role in keeping patients safe in hospitals. Further examination of this process is necessary for targeted assessment of a safety culture's impact on bedside nursing practice, thus providing a basis for specific interventions to improve patient safety.
PMID:
23221103
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It's Always Something: Hospital Nurses Managin... [Clin Nurs Res. 2012] - PubMed - NCBI

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