Nursing errors in the media: patient safety in the window.
Nursing errors in the media: patient safety in the window.
E. Forte,D. Pires,3 Authors,L. L. Trindade
2019 · DOI: 10.1590/0034-7167-2018-0113
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem · 11 Citations
TLDR
Nursing mistakes are a challenge for the profession, and the way they are communicated by the media is not very explanatory, contributing to a negative visibility of the profession and to making society insecure.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE
To analyze the nursing errors reported by the journalistic media and interpret the main implications of this communication for the visibility of this problem.METHOD
Documental research, qualitative, descriptive and exploratory, with data collected in news reports from Brazil and Portugal, analyzed through hermeneutics with resources of Atlas Software.RESULTS
We analyzed 112 news items published between 2012 and 2016 that resulted in six categories: Year - highest occurrence in 2012; Age group of the patient - children; Professional category - nurses; Type of error - medication; Outcome - death; Possible attributed cause - occupational conditions.FINAL CONSIDERATIONS
Nursing mistakes are a challenge for the profession, and the way they are communicated by the media is not very explanatory, contributing to a negative visibility of the profession, and to making society insecure. Improving the way they are served in the media contributes to the visibility of the problem without affecting the professional image.