Recent nursing investigations highlight that patient safety is compromised by unfinished nursing care. Unfinished nursing care can be described as an error of omission because the totality, or just part, of the care needed by the patient was not provided essentially due to time scarcity (Kalisch, Landstrom, & Hinshaw, 2009). As a result, nurses prioritize the essential care they need to provide to their patients, which may then lead to unfinished nursing care (Jones, Hamilton, & Murry, 2015). There is no consensus on which is the best terminology to define unfinished care. In literature, we may find expressions such as 'missed nursing care,' 'unfinished care,' 'care
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