How Perioperative Nurses Define, Attribute Causes of, and React to Intraoperative Nursing Errors

Abstract Errors in nursing practice pose a continuing threat to patient safety. A descriptive, correlational study was conducted to examine the definitions, circumstances, and perceived causes of intraoperative nursing errors; reactions of perioperative nurses to intraoperative nursing errors; and t...

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Published inAORN journal Vol. 91; no. 1; pp. 132 - 145
Main Author Chard, Robin
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Elsevier Inc 2010
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Subjects
Adaptation, Psychological
Anesthesia & Perioperative Care
Attitude of Health Personnel
Avoidance Learning
Burnout, Professional - etiology
Burnout, Professional - psychology
Causality
coping strategies
Definitions
Emotions
Female
Humans
Intraoperative Care - nursing
intraoperative nursing errors
Male
Medical errors
Medical Errors - nursing
Medical Errors - prevention & control
Middle Aged
Models, Nursing
Models, Psychological
Nurses
Nursing
Nursing Methodology Research
Nursing Staff, Hospital - education
Nursing Staff, Hospital - organization & administration
Nursing Staff, Hospital - psychology
Operating Room Nursing - education
Operating Room Nursing - organization & administration
Perianesthesia
perioperative nursing
Problem Solving
Regression (Psychology)
Risk Management - organization & administration
Social Support
Statistics, Nonparametric
Surgery
Surveys and Questionnaires
United States > US
coping strategies
perioperative nursing
intraoperative nursing errors
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Summary:Abstract Errors in nursing practice pose a continuing threat to patient safety. A descriptive, correlational study was conducted to examine the definitions, circumstances, and perceived causes of intraoperative nursing errors; reactions of perioperative nurses to intraoperative nursing errors; and the relationships among coping with intraoperative nursing errors, emotional distress, and changes in practice made as a result of error. The results indicate that strategies of accepting responsibility and using self-control are significant predictors of emotional distress. Seeking social support and planful problem solving emerged as significant predictors of constructive changes in practice. Most predictive of defensive changes was the strategy of escape/avoidance.
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ISSN:0001-2092
1878-0369
DOI:10.1016/j.aorn.2009.06.028