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Tracking medical errors and near misses in the new graduate registered nurse
Author(s) -
Africa Larissa,
Shinners Jean S.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
nursing forum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.618
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1744-6198
pISSN - 0029-6473
DOI - 10.1111/nuf.12412
Subject(s) - transparency (behavior) , health care , narrative , nurse practitioners , near miss , medical education , graduate medical education , action (physics) , call to action , psychology , tracking (education) , nursing , medicine , computer science , political science , pedagogy , accreditation , business , computer security , linguistics , philosophy , physics , forensic engineering , quantum mechanics , law , engineering , marketing
This article provides a narrative that describes the current state of medical errors and near misses in the general health care setting and for new graduate registered nurses specifically. It then proposes a “wild idea” to create a national database for the reporting of errors that would act as a call to action to change our current reporting system to one of transparency and shared information for the purpose of creating needed education in both academic and practice settings.