nurses in surgery

Barriers leading to underreporting of medical errors by nurses include:

  • Burdensome documentation requirements
  • Inability to report errors anonymously
  • Hesitancy to report on another
  • Unclear reporting requirements
  • Fear of lawsuits
  • (Uribe, Schweikhart, Pathak, & Marsh, 2002, p. 273).


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