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BMJ Qual Saf
November 2016
Department of Biomedical, Industrial and Human Factors Engineering, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, USA.
Introduction: Efforts to understand interruptions now span much of the last decade and a half. Often thought to negatively impact patient safety, some now acknowledge that interruptions may be beneficial and actually necessary for safety and high quality care. This study seeks a framework for differentiating between interruptions that are detrimental and those that are beneficial.
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August 1997
Doctors Community Hospital, Lanham, MD., USA.
An inability to attract and retain sufficient numbers of Registered Nurses (RN's), and Resident Medical Officer shortages in 1990 lead to a concern about who would provide services and whether RN's should "extend" their roles. This survey was developed to allow clinical nurses to identify what their role should be and to quantify the degree of role extension already occurring in the Intensive Care Units (ICU's) of New South Wales' hospitals. Surveys (823) were sent to 33 ICU's across New South Wales.
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April 1991
A target population of 742 registered nurses (RNs) who had direct contact or potential for direct contact with college nursing students were surveyed regarding their attitudes to the transfer of undergraduate nurse education to the tertiary sector, and to helping teach/supervise students. The RNs were located at 19 of 21 hospitals providing clinical experience for students of one college during semester one in 1989; 490 (66%) returned completed questionnaires. These bedside nurse clinicians were clearly divided on whether the transfer would ultimately benefit the nursing profession.
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