Second victim phenomenon after patient safety incidents among Korean nursing students: A cross-sectional study

Second victim experience and support desire among nurses working at regional levels in China

“…Further, recent years have seen an in increase in the demand for health care practitioners, not only sparking burnout (Heiss & Clifton, 2019) but also contributing to adverse events (Kjaer et al, 2021). Moreover, nurses in our sample reported a similar degree of second victim experience and described that support desire, psychological distress and practice distress were the things with which they suffered the most after PSIs, consistent with previous reports (Choi et al, 2021; Mok et al, 2019a). Indeed, there is a current consensus that the potential consequences of PSIs for nurse professionals and patients are severe (Garcia et al, 2019).…”

“…Currently, interest in the second victim syndrome continues to grow (Zhihua et al, 2020), and the same can be said about awareness of its consequences for doctors (Bohnen et al, 2019; Martos et al, 2019), nurses (Finney et al, 2021; Mok et al, 2019b), anaesthesiologists (Pratt & Jachna, 2015; Vinson & Randel, 2018) and students (Choi et al, 2021; Huang et al, 2020). The second victim syndrome has been reported to have a long‐lasting influence on health care workers and patients (Huang et al, 2020; Tumelty, 2018).…”

Patient Safety Incidents and the second victim phenomenon among nursing students

“…In this approach, barriers and defenses play a central role in error prevention. High-tech systems have many defensive layers, which must be used to make healthcare work environments safer (16) .…”

“…In the same way that health institutions should not skimp on alarms, physical barriers, human barriers, checklists, and automatic shutdowns to protect patients and professionals, educational institutions should invest in strategies to prevent students from becoming involved in patient safety events and encourage this topic to be taught early on (16) .…”

“…Additionally, a fair culture should be implemented in higher education institutions. Therefore, students should be adequately prepared for clinical settings and learn to talk openly about their mistakes, with the support of educators who should work on the causes of incidents and consider the system's vulnerabilities rather than blame students (16) . Moreover, the reporting of patient safety incidents and supportive policies should be instituted by universities and transmitted to nursing students (16,22) .…”