Missed Nursing Care

摘要：

IntroductionEnsuring quality nursing care and patient safety is a major challenge facing nurses and nurse leaders today.Worldwide,there is a recognition that patient errors occur with regularity.Patient errors can be either an act of commission (doing something wrong such as administering an incorrect medication) or an act of omission (failing to do the right thing such as not ambulating a patient as needed) that leads to an adverse outcome or has significant potential for such an outcome”1”.According to the AHRQ,”errors of omission are more difficult to recognize than errors of commission but likely represent a larger problem””2”.Missed nursing care was first studied in 2006”3”.It is defined as any aspect of required patient care that is omitted (either in part or in whole) or delayed”4”.This article will summarize the findings of studies about missed nursing care and provide the clinical implications for nursing care and patient safety.

机标关键词：nursing care、patient safety

所属期刊栏目：29

分类号：R65;R1

在线出版日期：2014-06-18（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）

页数：共4页

页码：1-4