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Alireza Nikbakht Nasrabadi¹, Hamid Peyrovi, Sina Valiee

¹School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran (Dr Nasrabadi); Nursing Care Research Center, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran (Dr Peyrovi); and Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran (Dr Valiee).

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Area of Science:

Nursing
Patient Safety
Healthcare Management

Background:

Nursing errors are prevalent in critical care settings.
Nurses are the primary responders to errors.
Effective error management is crucial for patient safety.

Purpose of the Study:

To explore nursing error management processes in Iranian critical care units.
To develop a theoretical explanation for managing nursing errors.
To identify strategies for improving error management in critical care.

Main Methods:

Grounded theory approach.
Purposive and theoretical sampling of 18 critical care nurses.
In-depth interviews and constant comparative analysis.

Main Results:

Core category: "continuous situational analysis."
Main categories: situational analysis (nature, consequences, monitoring, threat) and error removal (self-action, cooperation, notifying, censoring).
Error management is often an informal, cyclical process.

Conclusions:

Nurses engage in concurrent, successive, or cyclical analysis and removal of errors.
A need exists for formal, effective error management strategies designed by nurse-managers.
A practical model for error prevention and management in critical care is necessary.