Aim This article reports an analysis of the concept of situational awareness in nursing.
Background Situational awareness is a fundamental and well‐understood concept used to …

stubbings l., chaboyer w. & mcmurray a.(2012) Nurses' use of situation awareness in
decision‐making: an integrative review. Journal of Advanced Nursing68 (7), 1443–1453 …

Situation awareness (SA) refers to the conscious awareness of the current situation in
relation to one's environment. In nursing, loss or failure to achieve high levels of SA is linked …

Eighty percent of medical error are attributed to human factors. Human factors experts
suggest the least explored factor in patient errors is attention, specifically, situation …

Background Accurate situation awareness has been identified as a critical component of
effective deteriorating patient response systems and an essential patient safety skill for …

Situation awareness describes an individual's perception, comprehension and subsequent
projection of what is going on in the environment around them. The concept of situation …

Aims and objectives To investigate final‐year nursing students' use of situation awareness
when making clinical decisions about patients' progress postsurgery. Background Making …

Background Nursing work often occurs in complex and potentially hazardous settings.
Awareness of patient and practice environments is an imperative for nurses in practice …

INTRODUCTION: Nurses and other field-level providers will be increasingly called on to
respond to both natural and man made situations that involve multiple casualties. Situational …

Background: Nontechnical skills have an impact on health care outcomes and improve
patient safety. Situation awareness is core with the view that an understanding of the …