Background: Studies showed that adverse events within health care settings can lead to two victims. The first victim is the patient and family and the second victim is the involved healthcare professionals. However, there is a lack of research studying the experiences of healthcare professionals encountering clinical incidents in Hong Kong.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: With the aim to enhance the senior nursing managers to be caring leaders so that they can nurture their team members to be holistic care providers, a one year program has been developed with emphasis on self-reflection and self-cultivation.
Purpose: It aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a one-year leadership enhancement program in an acute general hospital.
Design & Methods: Both quantitative and qualitative approaches were adopted.
Medication error is the most common and consistent type of error occurring in hospitals. This article attempts to explore the ethical issues relating to the nursing management of medication errors in clinical areas in Macau, China. A qualitative approach was adopted.
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