“You Never Forget Your First Mistake”: Nursing Socialization, Memorable Messages, and Communication About Medical Errors
“You Never Forget Your First Mistake”: Nursing Socialization, Memorable Messages, and Communication About Medical Errors
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“你永远不会忘记你的第一个错误”:护理社会化、难忘的信息以及有关医疗错误的沟通
作者:
Carey M Noland;H. Carmack
As nurses’ communication is essential to prevent, intercept, and resolve medical mistakes, it is important to understand how they learn to communicate about medical errors. In this study, we identify memorable messages about communicating about mistakes that nursing students receive during their training and how they make sense of these messages. Data were acquired through individual interviews with 68 nursing students. The data were analyzed using a thematic constant comparative method. While open and honest communication about medical errors was the overarching message participants formally and informally learned, for nursing students, communicating about medical errors is a much more complex process than using open and honest communication. When dealing with medical errors, nursing students relied on three major memorable messages to guide their communication: (a) Not everyone hears about errors, (b) hierarchy matters, and (c) passive communication is the best way to interrupt or report an error.