» Articles » PMID: 36141415

Investigation of Mental and Physical Health of Nurses Associated with Errors in Clinical Practice

Abstract

Background: Errors are common among all healthcare settings. The safety of patients is linked directly with nursing errors because nurses stand by them more often than any other healthcare professional. The role of mental and physical health of nurses is of great interest for a good and efficient job performance, but also for maintaining good patient care delivery. This study aimed to investigate the association between nurses’ general health and making errors during clinical practice. Methods: A total of 364 nurses completed a specially designed questionnaire anonymously and voluntarily. The sample consisted of nurses with all educational degrees. The questionnaire included demographic data and questions about general health issues, resilience status and nurses’ possible experience with errors within a hospital. Results: 65,8% of the participants stated that at least one error had happened at their workplace, and 49,4% of them reported that the error was caused by them. Somatic symptoms were found to have a positive correlation with making errors (p < 0.001). However, the other aspects of general health, which were anxiety/insomnia, social dysfunction and severe depression, had no statistical significance with adverse events. The most common type of error reported (65,5%) was a medication adverse event. Resilience level was found to be statistically significant (p < 0.001) when correlated with all aspects of general health (anxiety/insomnia, severe depression, somatic symptoms), but not with social dysfunction. Conclusion: Nurses are affected by their somatic symptoms in their daily clinical practice, making them vulnerable to making errors that compromise patient safety. A high resilience level could help them cope with unfavorable situations and prevent them from doing harm to a patient or themselves.

Citing Articles

Occurrence and associated factors of self-reported medical errors among Chinese physicians and nurses: a cross-sectional survey.

Li Z, Liu L, Zhang X, Yan K, Wang X, Wu M Ann Med. 2024; 57(1):2445187.

PMID: 39723713 PMC: 11703027. DOI: 10.1080/07853890.2024.2445187.


An Overview of Nursing Errors Using the Taxonomy of Error, Root Cause Analysis, and Practice-Responsibility Research Tool.

Pappa D, Manthou P, Ferentinou E, Giga A, Bourazani M, Chrysi M Cureus. 2024; 16(7):e65070.

PMID: 39171015 PMC: 11336781. DOI: 10.7759/cureus.65070.


Investigation of Nurses' Wellbeing towards Errors in Clinical Practice-The Role of Resilience.

Pappa D, Koutelekos I, Evangelou E, Dousis E, Mangoulia P, Gerogianni G Medicina (Kaunas). 2023; 59(10).

PMID: 37893568 PMC: 10608256. DOI: 10.3390/medicina59101850.


Nurses' Colleague Solidarity and Job Performance: Mediating Effect of Positive Emotion and Turnover Intention.

Wang J, Liu S, Qu X, He X, Zhang L, Guo K Saf Health Work. 2023; 14(3):309-316.

PMID: 37822463 PMC: 10562161. DOI: 10.1016/j.shaw.2023.06.001.

References
1.
Valiee S, Peyrovi H, Nasrabadi A . Critical care nurses' perception of nursing error and its causes: a qualitative study. Contemp Nurse. 2014; 46(2):206-13. DOI: 10.5172/conu.2014.46.2.206. View

2.
Gold D, Rogacz S, Bock N, Tosteson T, Baum T, Speizer F . Rotating shift work, sleep, and accidents related to sleepiness in hospital nurses. Am J Public Health. 1992; 82(7):1011-4. PMC: 1694075. DOI: 10.2105/ajph.82.7.1011. View

3.
Fujishiro K, Lividoti Hibert E, Schernhammer E, Rich-Edwards J . Shift work, job strain and changes in the body mass index among women: a prospective study. Occup Environ Med. 2016; 74(6):410-416. DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2016-103747. View

4.
Smith B, Dalen J, Wiggins K, Tooley E, Christopher P, Bernard J . The brief resilience scale: assessing the ability to bounce back. Int J Behav Med. 2008; 15(3):194-200. DOI: 10.1080/10705500802222972. View

5.
Vetter C, Devore E, Wegrzyn L, Massa J, Speizer F, Kawachi I . Association Between Rotating Night Shift Work and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease Among Women. JAMA. 2016; 315(16):1726-34. PMC: 5102147. DOI: 10.1001/jama.2016.4454. View