Nurse Sensemaking for Responding to Patient and Family Safety Concerns.

Background: Hospitals need to prevent, respond to, and learn from safety risks and events perceived by patients and families, who in turn rely on nurses to respond to and report their safety concerns.

Objectives: The aim of the study was to describe the process by which bedside nurses evaluate and determine the appropriate response to safety concerns expressed by patients or their families.

Methods: A qualitative design was employed.

A grounded theory of creating space for open safety communication between hospitalized patients and nurses.

Background: There is evidence that fear of negative nurse response may prevent hospitalized patients from sharing safety concerns, adversely affecting patient safety.

Purpose: The purpose of the present study was to describe the process by which bedside nurses recognize and respond to safety concerns expressed by patients or their families.

Methods: Twenty-five bedside nurses from 30 maternal-child, intensive, medical-surgical, and psychiatric inpatient units within an academic medical center participated in semi-structured interviews.

Talking about Sugar-Sweetened Beverages: Causes, Processes, and Consequences of Campaign-Induced Interpersonal Communication.

Media campaigns may influence audience members directly, via message exposure, or indirectly, via conversations about the campaign. Either process has the potential to produce persuasion or counter-persuasion (i.e.