Factors influencing student nurse decisions to report poor practice witnessed while on placement

Abstract

While there is a drive to promote openness in health care settings and an expectation that staff will raise concerns the reality is that the decision to do this can be very difficult. This is the case for some student nurses. Our results suggest ways in which educationalists might intervene to support students who witness poor practice to report.

Accounting for actions and omissions: a discourse analysis of student nurse accounts of responding to instances of poor care

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Decision making from the perspective of nursing students

“…Recognizing that students made fewer decisions of some types (11), such as those associated with targeting, timing, and management of the care process, it is of utmost importance to investigate what leads students to be more focused on some decisions than others, how they determine that they have to make a decision, and how they respond when nursing care to a patient is required (10,16) .…”

“…The development of decision-making skills has become an increasing area of nursing education, leading to a strong impact on international studies (11) . The context of the studies has addressed from the most appropriate pedagogical methods to teach decision-making (5,(8)(9)(12)(13)(14) up to the type of reasoning used in the decision learning on the care to be provided (4,7,(15)(16)(17) , as well as the development of this skill throughout education (18) .…”

A concept analysis of undergraduate nursing students speaking up for patient safety in the patient care environment

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