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To Report Or Not To Report: A Descriptive Study Exploring Icu Nurses' Perceptions Of Error And Error Reporting, Sherry Espin, Abigail Wickson-Griffiths, Michelle Wilson, Lorelei Lingard
To Report Or Not To Report: A Descriptive Study Exploring Icu Nurses' Perceptions Of Error And Error Reporting, Sherry Espin, Abigail Wickson-Griffiths, Michelle Wilson, Lorelei Lingard
Lorelei Lingard
OBJECTIVE: To explore the emergent factors influencing nurses' error reporting preferences, scenarios were developed to probe reporting situations in the intensive care unit.
SETTING: Three Canadian intensive care unit settings including: one urban academic tertiary hospital, one community hospital and one academic paediatric hospital. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY/DESIGN: Using qualitative descriptive methodology, semi-structured interviews were guided by a script which included a series of both closed and open-ended questions. One near miss and four error scenarios were used as prompts during the interview. Four of the five scenarios were identical across all the three sites; however, one scenario differed in the community …