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Nurses' Practice Environments, Error Interception Practices and Inpatient Medication Errors (2012)
Null hypothesis: There is no significant relationship between nurses' error interception practices and their practice environment.
Alternative hypothesis: There is a significant relationship between nurses' error interception practices and their practice environment.
Two frameworks were used in developing the theoretical foundation of the study: Error Theory and Nursing Organization and Outcomes Model.
Error Theory is a framework developed to explain errors that occur in different organizational settings. In the hospital/medical setting, errors are identified as medical errors, defined as "any preventable event that may lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm" (Flynn et al., 2012, p. 181). In essence, error theory...
Further, the theory's proponent, J. Reason, posited that within the system, there must be "layers of defenses" developed to curb the effect of errors at every layer or step of the way that could hamper an organization's activities (and, as in the case of hospitals, those errors that could cost people's lives).
The Nursing Organization and Outcomes Model explains how a supportive nursing practice environment could actually lead to "positive patient outcomes" (p. 181). A supportive nursing practice environment is described as follows: (1) opportunities for nurses to participate in organizational decisions; (2) competent and supportive frontline nurse managers;…
Reference
Flynn, L., Y. Liang, G. Dickson, M. Xie, and D. Suh. (2012). "Nurses' Practice Environments, Error Interception Practices and Inpatient Medication Errors." Journal of Nursing Scholarship, Vol. 44, No. 2.
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