Highlights
- •Understanding nurse safety behavior in response to interventions is critical.
- •Nurse safety behavior is difficult to manipulate, observe, and analyze in situ.
- •Simulation allows intervention testing without risking patients or disrupting care.
- •A simulation platform was built to test the impact of patient safety interventions.
- •The simulation was found to be realistic and feasible for use in safety research.
Abstract
Background
It is critical to understand but difficult to study nursing behavior in response to
safety interventions.
Methods
A common nursing scenario, evidence based on appropriate nursing actions in response
to patient safety risks, and a corresponding measure of nursing behavior, the Safety
Action Performance Scale, were developed. These tools were content validated and tested
for feasibility.
Results
The scenario was low-cost, realistic, and successfully used in a mixed-method pilot
study. The Safety Action Performance Scale was easy to use and revise for greater
interrater reliability.
Conclusion
Simulation provides a feasible means for testing safety interventions to improve safety-oriented
behavior and subsequent patient outcomes.
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Published online: December 11, 2017
Footnotes
Funding: This work was supported by the Dean's Research Award from the University of Iowa College of Nursing.
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