A qualitative study describing nursing home nurses sensemaking to detect medication order discrepancies

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Vogelsmeier, Amy ^a   Anderson, Ruth A ^b   Anbari, Allison ^c   Ganong, Lawrence ^a   Farag, Amany ^d   Niemeyer, Maryann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COLLEGE OF NURSING   (United States)

Author keywords

Medication reconciliation; Medication safety; Nursing homes; Sensemaking

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTENT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEADERSHIP; LICENSED PRACTICAL NURSE; MALE; MEDICATION THERAPY MANAGEMENT; NURSING HOME; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REGISTERED NURSE; RESIDENT; SAFETY; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; UNITED STATES; VIGNETTE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; NURSE; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSE PRACTITIONER; NURSING PRACTICE; PATIENT SAFETY; STANDARDS;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEADERSHIP; MALE; MEDICATION RECONCILIATION; MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES; NURSE PRACTITIONERS; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSES; NURSING HOMES; PATIENT SAFETY; PRACTICE PATTERNS, NURSES'; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 85026816616     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12913-017-2495-6     Document Type: Article

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