Search results for "Interruptions and distractions"

Distractions and interruptions are prevalent in health care delivery. This conference report reviews types of distractions in anesthesiology, their likelihood to introduce significant risks into care processes, and strategies to help manage distractions.

Noise in the operating room can contribute to miscommunication, stress, and fatigue. This commentary describes a project that established a designated quiet space in an outpatient surgical setting to decrease opportunities for distraction in perioperative care and provided education regarding the importance of noise reduction.

Interruptions are common in care settings and can introduce safety hazards into health care processes. This commentary describes an observational method to explore factors that contribute to interruptions from various perspectives to better understand the reasons for interruptions and design strategies to manage them. A past PSNet perspective discussed an approach to reduce interruptions.

Interruptions are a common occurrence in health care. This commentary suggests that research about interruptions clearly determine definitions, data collection methods, and processes that are affected to enhance understanding regarding the impact of disruptions on patient safety.

Nursing students and new registered nurses are more likely to make mistakes during medication administration due to lack of experience and insufficient knowledge. This commentary describes the development and implementation of a simulation program to help students experience the various interruptions and distractions that occur in the hospital environment while preparing medications to understand how they can contribute to errors and learn about risks associated with multitasking.

Exploring the existing evidence on interruptions in health care, this commentary reveals that most studies focus on the rate of interruptions rather than the relationship between interruptions and errors. The author calls for research to evaluate how use of multitasking behaviors to manage interruptions and to differentiate between appropriate interruptions that prevent errors and those that contribute to preventable harm.

Aviation strategies often guide patient safety improvement discussions. This commentary describes how a team of nurses applied the sterile cockpit concept in their unit to decrease interruptions during medication administration. The authors relate lessons learned from their experience.

This commentary discusses how interruptions can affect medication safety and outlines a five-step guide to help clinicians determine if and when they should interrupt.

This commentary discusses standards related to workspace design that can help address interruptions, noise, and other distractions to prevent medication errors.

This commentary discusses interruption research in health care, challenges to understanding its impact, and approaches to reducing interruptions in care delivery.

This commentary explores how interruptions can affect safety in the emergency department.

This commentary discusses preventable medication errors and describes how reducing interruptions can improve safety in nursing practice.

Through space and process design improvements, a medication safety project increased use of double-check procedures and reduced interruptions and distractions.

This article explains how interruptions affect cognition and how disruption may lead to errors.

The author discusses how excessive noise affects the safety of care delivery and provides strategies to lessen its impact.

The author discusses some of the research on interruptions and distractions in the nursing environment.

This quarterly commentary explores a wide range of subjects associated with patient safety, such as the impact of disruptive behavior on teams, the value of apologies, and work hour reforms. Older materials are available online for free.

Errors in surgical care are often associated with human factors, interruptions, and staffing issues. This commentary describes a program to augment safety in ambulatory surgery centers, which includes a surgical checklist, change management, and teamwork.

This article describes the causes of medication errors in the operating room and discusses prevention strategies, including using read-back techniques and reducing interruptions.