We found a match
Your institution may have rights to this item. Sign in to continue.
- Title
Nurse Manager Safety Practices in Outpatient Hemodialysis Units.
- Authors
Thomas-Hawkins, Charlotte; Flynn, Linda; Lindgren, Teri G.; Weaver, Susan
- Abstract
Little is known regarding the specific managerial activities or best practices that nurse managers in outpatient hemodialysis settings use to achieve positive safety outcomes. The purpose of this study was to identify and describe specific managerial practices used by nurse managers in outpatient hemodialysis units to enhance patient safety and quality of care. A descriptive qualitative design was used. Seventeen nurse managers in outpatient hemodialysis units comprised the study sample. Telephone interviews were conducted, and qualitative content analysis was used to encode the data. Nurse managers identified patients, staff, the dialysis unit environment, and the dialysis organization as sources of safety risks. Nurse manager safety practices illuminated from the data were complex and multifaceted, and were aimed at reducing patient, staff, environmental, and organization risks. The findings from this study offer a description and a better understanding of the practices in which nurse managers in outpatient hemodialysis units engage to keep patients safe in their units, and they underscore the critical role of nurse managers in creating and maintaining patient safety within outpatient hemodialysis settings.
- Subjects
UNITED States; AUDITING; PREVENTION of communicable diseases; LEGAL compliance; CONTENT analysis; HEALTH facilities; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODIALYSIS patients; HEMODIALYSIS facilities; WORKING hours; INTERVIEWING; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL quality control; NEPHROLOGY; NURSE administrators; NURSING; NURSING services administration; PATIENT compliance; PATIENT education; PATIENT safety; PROFESSIONS; WORK environment; QUALITATIVE research; CONTINUING education units
- Publication
Nephrology Nursing Journal, 2015, Vol 42, Issue 2, p125
- ISSN
1526-744X
- Publication type
Article