Moving on after critical incidents in health care: A qualitative study of the perspectives and experiences of second victims.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To gain a deeper understanding of nurses and midwives' experiences following involvement in a critical incident in a non-critical care area and to explore how they have 'moved-on' from the event.

Design

An interpretive descriptive design guided inductive inquiry to interpret the meaning of moving-on.

Methods

Purposive sampling recruited 10 nurses and midwives. Data collection comprised semi-structured interviews, memos and field notes. Data were concurrently collected and analysed during 2016-2017 with NVivo 11. The thematic analysis enabled a coherent analytical framework evolving emerging themes and transformation of the data into credible interpretive description findings, adhering to the COREQ reporting guidelines.

Results

The findings revealed five ma

SUBMITTER: Buhlmann M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9543713 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature