“Missed nursing care” in health promotion: Raising awareness

Abstract

Missed nursing care is "any aspect of nursing care that is omitted or delayed" (Kalisch, Landstrom, & Hinshaw, 2009). This phenomenon is associated with negative outcomes in the patient as well as in nurses and health care organisations (Jones, Hamilton, & Murry, 2015). Several research studies have been carried out on its magnitude, impact and main causes (Jones et al., 2015; Mandal, Seethalakshmi, & Rajendrababu, 2019). These studies so far have been based primarily on patient safety principles in hospital settings. Organisational culture of current health systems is still predominantly hospital-centred and medicine-centred, which may condition that the concept

Missed nursing care in the Malaysian context: A cross‐sectional study from nurses' perspective

“…The reasons for nurses to miss nursing care are multifactorial (Lopez‐Dicastillo et al., 2020), commonly related to their work environment, personal traits or hospital characteristics (Blackman et al., 2018; Eskin Bacaksiz et al., 2020; Lake et al., 2019). Several researchers have outlined labour resources, material resources and communication as the principal reasons for missed nursing care (Chegini et al., 2020; Dutra et al., 2019; Tou et al., 2019), as these factors entail the prioritization of nursing care elements (Cho et al., 2019; Griffiths et al., 2018).…”

A longitudinal study of multiple lifestyle health risk behaviours among nursing students and non‐nursing peers

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Work environment challenging Irish public health nurses’ care quality: First postnatal visit

“…Workload is a critical concept in the evaluation of performance and quality in healthcare systems and has a profound effect on the provision of healthcare delivery (Phelan et al., 2018). High workload has serious effects on patient safety (Lopez‐Dicastillo et al., 2020; Andersson et al., 2021). Effective workload allocation can reduce staff burnout, poor health outcomes, and improve patient safety by preventing errors (Lopez‐Dicastillo et al., 2020).…”

“…High workload has serious effects on patient safety (Lopez‐Dicastillo et al., 2020; Andersson et al., 2021). Effective workload allocation can reduce staff burnout, poor health outcomes, and improve patient safety by preventing errors (Lopez‐Dicastillo et al., 2020).…”

“…This can be due to low staffing levels and poor practice environments (Hegney et al., 2019). Progressively, nurses are struggling to manage care they provide (Kirwan et al., 2013) and this is an International problem (Lopez‐Dicastillo et al., 2020).…”