Monday, March 30, 2009
Nurses have conflicting feelings about reporting errors
Nurses have conflicted feelings about reporting medical errors, partly because they may believe the error was not serious enough to report and they may not know if anything meaningful happens to a report after it is made, a study found. Nurses in focus groups said time pressures also were a factor in reporting errors, as well as whether the patient was harmed and whether they received feedback when disclosing an error. Read more at NurseZone.com
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I agree 100%. Its unfortunate that the job we do deals with objects that can talk back. If a person working with computers or a person working in retail makes a mistake, the error just gets fixed and noone needs to know. As medical professionals, we're still human and make mistakes. If I make a mistake that would jeopardize a pts.life I would definitely report it but if it is something that has no long lasting affect then I take it as a learning experience and move on! Lori, RN
in my department nurses are discouraged from filing incident reports. The clinical manager is ultimately responsible and does not want the accountability nor the exposure to the department.
annonymous RN
It is shameful that your manager discourages nurses from filing incident reports. Supposedly the new CEO at RI Hospital wants to create a "transparent", "blame-free" environment to improve our quality and patient safety. I guess he didn't mention this to your manager!
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