Objective: Nurses and their leaders are known for actively using incident reporting systems. However, information sharing about lessons learned from incidents has rarely been reported in previous studies. This study aimed to describe nurses' and nursing managers' experiences with incident reporting system information sharing and their perceptions of patient safety development needs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Collaborative and innovative educational approaches are essential to building nurses' competencies in responding to healthcare challenges and to enhance high-quality nursing practice. Nurses are increasingly learning in various contexts, and thus, the understanding and organising of collaborative learning needs further exploration.
Aim: To describe collaborative learning in nursing practice and education from the point of view of nurses, involved as students and teachers in master's education in nursing.
Aim: Aim of this study was to describe and analyse associations of incidents and their improvement actions in hospital setting.
Methods: It was a retrospective document analysis of incident reporting systems' reports registered during 2018-2019 in two Estonian regional hospitals. Data were extracted, organised, quantified and analysed by statistical methods.
Background: Patient safety competencies in nursing are essential for the quality of healthcare. To develop practices and collaboration in nursing care, valid instruments that measure competencies in patient safety are needed.
Objective: To identify instruments that measure the patient safety competencies of nurses.
Background: Care left undone is a worldwide problem for both the quality of health care and the safety of patients. In surgical nursing, care left undone is a critical issue arising from the intensive pace of work, invasive procedures and the pressure for efficiency. Previous knowledge about care left undone in surgical contexts is missing.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: A growing body of evidence about nurses' ethical conflicts has been added to nursing science in recent decades, but no research has been done in Estonia. Ethical conflicts are a cultural and context sensitive phenomenon, so the historical, legal, social, economic and political backgrounds and position of nursing have had an impact on ethical conflict experiences.
Aim: Describe nurses' experiences of ethical conflicts.