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Improving Patient Safety: Using Bruner's Theory of Constructivism to Develop an Innovative Root Cause Analysis
Kathryn Farrell1, Jackie Murphy
1About the Authors Kathryn Farrell, EdD, MSN, RN, is an assistant clinical professor, Drexel University College of Nursing and Health Professions, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Jackie Murphy, EdD, RN, CNE, is an associate clinical professor and co-chair of the division of graduate nursing, Drexel University College of Nursing and Health Professions. For more information, contact Kathryn Farrell at ktf42@drexel.edu .
Abstract:
Medical errors and near-miss events continue to impact hundreds of thousands of people annually. Given this fact, it is imperative that graduate students entering a career in patient safety are confident and competent in conducting root cause analyses so that they can fix broken systems and improve patient outcomes. Using Bruner's theory of constructivism as a framework, a virtual simulation was developed to provide online graduate nursing students an opportunity to apply classroom knowledge of root cause analyses in a virtual real-world online simulation.
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