Medical-surgical nurse leaders' experiences with safety culture: an inductive qualitative descriptive study.

Lisa Harton; Lisa Skemp

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Medical-surgical nurse leaders' experiences with safety culture: an inductive qualitative descriptive study.

November 9, 2022

Harton L, Skemp L. J Nurs Manag. 2022;30(7):2781-2790.

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Nurse leaders play an important role in ensuring a robust patient safety culture. Ten nurse leaders at a United States hospital provided their perspectives on how they ensure a culture of safety on their units. Six overarching themes emerged as well as structural and organizational challenges.

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