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Redefining critical incidents: a preliminary report.

C Burns1, L Rosenberg

  • 1Mission Integration and Culture Development, Provena Health, Kankakee, Illinois, USA. CarolynMBurns@ProvenaHealth.com

International Journal of Emergency Mental Health
|May 16, 2001
PubMed
Summary

Traumatic events become critical incidents when nurses find personal meaning in them. This meaning, interacting with the event and professional response, triggers significant cognitive, emotional, and behavioral changes.

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Area of Science:

  • Nursing
  • Psychology
  • Qualitative Research

Background:

  • Existing definitions of critical incidents lack comprehensiveness.
  • Understanding traumatic events in nursing is crucial for professional development.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore how traumatic events become critical incidents.
  • To generate a new, comprehensive definition of a critical incident.

Main Methods:

  • Qualitative content analysis of structured interviews.
  • Six emergency nurses were interviewed about their experiences with critical events.

Main Results:

  • Nurses' experiences integrated existing definitions (event, reaction, performance).
  • A comprehensive understanding requires considering the interaction of these elements.
  • The personal meaning a nurse assigns to an event is a key component.

Conclusions:

  • A critical incident involves an event, professional response, and personal meaning.
  • The generation of personal meaning can lead to cognitive, affective, and behavioral changes.
  • Proposes a more holistic definition of critical incidents in nursing.

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