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NURSE EDUCATION IN PRACTICE
Volume 70, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.nepr.2023.103646
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Error reporting; Moral courage; Speaking up; Interprofessional perspectives of healthcare error; Pre-licensure education; Moral courage in pre-licensure education
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This study explored health professionals' perceptions of healthcare reporting and organizational culture. The findings identified organizational factors, characteristics required for moral courage, and priority methods for guiding moral courage. It highlights the need for leadership education in moral courage and offers educational interventions to promote reporting and develop moral courage in healthcare.
Background: Error reporting and speaking up are mechanisms to reduce the incidence of healthcare errors. However, organizational policies don't always align with individuals' perceptions and beliefs to promote these mechanisms. When this misalignment produces fear, moral courage, which is taking action regardless of personal consequences, becomes necessary. Teaching moral courage in pre-licensure education may set a foundation for individuals to speak up in post-licensure careers.Aim: To explore health professionals' perceptions of healthcare reporting and organizational culture to inform pre-licensure education on how to promote moral courage. Methods: Thematic analysis of four semi-structured focus groups with fourteen health professions educators followed by in-depth, semi-structured individual interviews.Findings: Organizational factors, characteristics that an individual must possess to enact moral courage and priority methods to guide moral courage were identified.Conclusions: This study outlines the need for leadership education in moral courage and offers educational in-terventions to promote reporting and aid in developing moral courage academic guidelines to improve health-care error reporting and speaking up behaviors.
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