Publications by authors named "Monika Habermann"

Unlabelled: Background: In clinical settings where missed nursing care prevails, nursing students' instructions, supervision and the joint reflection on clinical practice with mentors are also affected and nursing students become involved in dealing with missed nursing care.

Aim: To explore the experience of missed nursing care in clinical placements, its meaning for nursing students, and actions they considered or took.

Methods: Qualitative study based on a content analysis of nursing students' written reports.

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Background: Nurses are often responsible for the care of many patients at the same time and have to prioritise their daily nursing care activities. Prioritising the different assessed care needs and managing consequential conflicting expectations, challenges nurses' professional and moral values.

Objective: To explore and illustrate the key aspects of the ethical elements of the prioritisation of nursing care and its consequences for nurses.

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Driven by interests in workforce planning and patient safety, a growing body of literature has begun to identify the reality and the prevalence of missed nursing care, also specified as care left undone, rationed care or unfinished care. Empirical studies and conceptual considerations have focused on structural issues such as staffing, as well as on outcome issues - missed care/unfinished care. Philosophical and ethical aspects of unfinished care are largely unexplored.

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Background: In the context of demographic ageing, municipalities are tasked with ensuring cross-sectoral care services for the elderly close to residential environments so that elderly people can remain in their own domestic environment as long as possible. A particular challenge is the inclusion of the migrant population, which is often still inadequate.

Objectives: Indicators for the municipal monitoring of integration have been developed on the basis of surveys of experts .

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Knowledge on errors is important to design safe nursing practice and its framework. This article presents results of a survey on this topic, including data of a representative sample of 724 nurses from 30 German hospitals. Participants predominantly remembered medication errors.

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Preventig errors and implementing risk management systems in health and nursing care requires knowledge about nurses' perceptions of errors, such as their handling and their reporting of errors. Whistleblowing is a way of reporting serious deficits by leaving predetermined pathways and addressing persons, institutions or media outside the organisation. In eighteen semi-structured interviews nurses were asked if they could imagine acting as a whistleblower, or if they even had ever blown the whistle before.

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