Exploratory factor analysis of the Just Culture Assessment Tool for nursing education.

Background: Just culture has been identified as a vital component of safety culture by national and international organisations. In a just culture, emphasis is not placed on blaming individuals for errors but rather on examining personal and system processes that can best support safety and prevent reoccurrence. Although those in the practice arena have worked to implement the concepts of just culture, the same is not true in nursing education, leaving nursing students lacking the pre-requisite knowledge, skills and attitudes to implement just culture in practice on graduation.

Just culture in healthcare: An integrative review.

Background: In spite of two decades of the patient safety movement in the United States, healthcare safety remains a significant problem. The paucity of empirical literature related to Just Culture in healthcare indicates a need for this concept to be examined and operationalized.

Purpose: The purpose was to appraise the literature regarding the use and application of Just Culture in healthcare.

Nursing Students' Perceptions of Just Culture in Nursing Programs: A Multisite Study.

Background: While just culture is embraced in the clinical setting, just culture has not been systematically incorporated into nursing education.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to assess prelicensure nursing student perceptions of just culture in academia.

Methods: Following a quantitative, descriptive design, the Just Culture Assessment Tool for Nursing Education (JCAT-NE) was used to measure just culture across multiple (N = 15) nursing programs.

Development and Validation of the Just Culture Assessment Tool for Nursing Education.

Background: Patient safety efforts in practice have focused on creating a just culture where errors can be identified and reported, and system remedies created to prevent reoccurrence. The same is not true of nursing education where student experiences with error and the sequelae that follow focus on individual performance.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to adapt the Just Culture Assessment Tool (JCAT) used in practice settings into a valid and reliable instrument to evaluate just culture in academic settings.

Nurses' professional concerns: letters to the editor for 1900-2005.

The purpose of this qualitative study was to broaden the context for understanding nurses' professional concerns as voiced through letters to the editor of the American Journal of Nursing from 1900 to 2005. Two issues from each year were randomly selected. Line-by-line analysis was used to code, categorize, and analyze the data.

The relationship between nurse staffing models and patient outcomes: a descriptive study.

In an era of dwindling reimbursement and rising healthcare costs, the impact of nurse staffing models on patient outcomes is a key concern. This study used a descriptive comparison design to examine the effects of a change in the staffing model on length of stay, variable cost, patient satisfaction, incidence of urinary tract infection and penumonia, and pain management in bowel resection patients. There were significant differences in the pain management outcomes between the two staffing models.