To report or not to report: a descriptive study exploring ICU nurses' perceptions of error and error reporting.

To explore the emergent factors influencing nurses' error reporting preferences, scenarios were developed to probe reporting situations in the intensive care unit. Three Canadian intensive care unit settings including: one urban academic tertiary hospital, one community hospital and one academic paediatric hospital. 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 site to reflect the distinct practice environment. Three key points of analysis included: nurses' error perception, decision to report the scenario and style of reporting (formal and/or informal). At least 81% of the 37 participants stated that they would report the events in the respective scenarios. Deviations from standards of practice emerged as the primary rationale for participants' perception of error. Nurses working in the intensive care unit readily perceive and are willing to report errors or near misses; however they may choose informal or formal methods to report.

Espin S ，Wickson-Griffiths A ，Wilson M ，Lingard L ... -  《-》

The nurses' experience of barriers to safe practice in the neonatal intensive care unit in Thailand.

Jirapaet V ，Jirapaet K ，Sopajaree C 《-》

Nurses' perceptions of leadership in an adult intensive care unit: a phenomenology study.

Linton J ，Farrell MJ 《-》

Strategies used by nurses to recover medical errors in an academic emergency department setting.

Henneman EA ，Blank FS ，Gawlinski A ，Henneman PL ... -  《APPLIED NURSING RESEARCH》

Factors affecting incident reporting by registered nurses: the relationship of perceptions of the environment for reporting errors, knowledge of the nursing practice act, and demographics on intent to report errors.

Throckmorton T ，Etchegaray J 《-》