NURSES' EXPERIENTIAL PERSPECTIVES OF MISTAKE-MAKING IN CLINICAL PRACTICE.
Contributors: Columbia University. Teachers College.
Published: 1992
Number of pages: 108
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: The research was a descriptive study of nurses' perceptions of the experience of making mistakes in their practice guided by a phenomenological perspective. The method used to investigate the phenomenon was based on the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and the phenomenological method of Max van Manen. The aim of the research was to describe the lived experience of making a mistake for a sample of nurses who have had at least one year of experience in an acute health care setting, to understand better the everyday experience of making a mistake. Data on the phenomenon of making a mistake in nursing were generated by using the researcher's personal experience, tracing etymological sources, obtaining experiential descriptions from nurses and locating experiential descriptions in literature and from the media. The final product of the investigation, a written description of the phenomenon, was reviewed by study participants for validation of accuracy. Themes were identified from the data, and study participants and a group of nonparticipants agreed that the final phenomenological writing captured the fundamental nature of the experience of making a mistake in clinical nursing practice. The importance of the study for nursing was affirmed by participants, who felt that the phenomenon of mistake making should be spoken about more openly and explored more thoroughly. The results of this research are intended to increase awareness of the phenomenon of making mistakes in clinical nursing practice and better inform actions taken related to nursing mistakes.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-05, Section: B, page: 2243.

Thesis (ED.D.)--COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY TEACHERS COLLEGE, 1992.

School code: 0055.