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How Perioperative Nurses Define, Attribute Causes of, and React to Intraoperative Nursing Errors
Author(s) -
Chard Robin
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
aorn journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1878-0369
pISSN - 0001-2092
DOI - 10.1016/j.aorn.2009.06.028
Subject(s) - distress , perioperative nursing , perioperative , nursing , nursing practice , constructive , emotional distress , coping (psychology) , patient safety , psychology , medicine , clinical psychology , psychiatry , computer science , anesthesia , health care , anxiety , process (computing) , economics , economic growth , operating system
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.