This international qualitative study explored strategies employed by nurse managers and directors to prevent missed nursing care. Most strategies, including staffing ratios, communication, and empowering nurse leaders, required complex interventions at the system level, indicating missed nursing care is not merely a nursing issue. Nurse managers play a key role in implementing strategies at the nursing and hospital level.

… may be effective in reducing critical events during MET. … Danielis M, Destrebecq A, Terzoni S, et al. Critical incidents involving the medical …

… non-handover times were identified. … Demaria J, Valent F, Danielis M, et al. Do falls and other safety issues occur …

A variety of interventions have been tested to reduce interruptions during the medication administration process, including the use of vests worn by nurses with messaging designed to deter interruptions. Patients' perceptions of such messaging remains unknown. In this observational study, researchers found that the use of such vests may be perceived negatively by patients and deter them from interrupting nurses, even for urgent care needs.

Incident reporting systems are widely utilized to identify safety concerns, but their effectiveness remains limited in part due to underreporting. Using data from a national survey of undergraduate nursing students in Italy, researchers found that 41.7% reported safety issues never, rarely, or sometimes.

This study implemented a set of interventions aimed at reducing nursing interruptions and found mixed effects. Although patients responded to nurses wearing a medication managing garment by decreasing interrpuptions, staff members did not.