Enhancing Patient Safety: Factors Influencing Medical Error Recovery Among Medical-Surgical Nurses.

Keeping patients safe is a core nursing duty. The dynamic nature of the healthcare environment requires that nurses practice to the full extent of their education, experience, and role to keep patients safe. Research has focused on error causation rather than error recovery, a process that occurs before patient harm ensues.

Nurses' role in medical error recovery: an integrative review.

Aims And Objectives: The aim of this study was to conduct an integrative review of the literature to fully understand nurses' role in medical error recovery.

Background: Despite focused efforts on error prevention, the prevalence of medical errors occurring in the health care system remains a concern. Patient harm can be reduced or prevented by adequate recovery processes that include identifying, interrupting and correcting medical errors in a timely fashion.