title: Advanced practice nursing students' identification of patient safety issues in ambulatory care.
abstract: Despite more than a decade of patient safety initiatives in our health care system, nurses (N = 172) identified a large number of safety issues in the ambulatory care setting, including issues in their own practice (50.7% of the encounters), feeling rushed or hurried (34.8% of encounters), and being interrupted (27.0% of encounters). Greater patient complexity was a significant predictor of identifying a diagnostic or management and treatment issue. The presence of an electronic health record was not related to reporting of a patient safety issue.
authors.affiliation: Columbia University School of Nursing, New York, NY 10032, USA. Rb897@columbia.edu
authors.forename: Rebecca
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Schnall
authors.forename: Elaine
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Larson
authors.forename: Patricia W
authors.initials: PW
authors.lastname: Stone
authors.forename: Rita Marie
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: John
authors.forename: Suzanne
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bakken
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D057179:Advanced Practice Nursing / Q000193:education*; D000553:Ambulatory Care / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D003625:Data Collection; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D061214:Patient Safety / Q000592:standards*; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D013338:Students, Nursing; D055815:Young Adult