Work interruptions are ubiquitous in today's workplaces as a result of the proliferation of
technology and a growing emphasis on collaboration and open workspaces. Although a …

Background Medication administration errors are frequent and lead to patient harm.
Interruptions during medication administration have been implicated as a potential …

Background Interruptions have been implicated as a cause of clinical errors, yet, to our
knowledge, no empirical studies of this relationship exist. We tested the hypothesis that …

Aim To explore the level of moral distress and potential associations between moral distress
indices and (1) nurse–physician collaboration,(2) autonomy,(3) professional satisfaction,(4) …

Aim To evaluate the effectiveness of a 'Do not interrupt'bundled intervention to reduce non-
medication-related interruptions to nurses during medication administration. Methods A …

Medication errors remain one of the most common causes of unintended harm to patients.
They contribute to adverse events that compromise patient safety and result in a large …

Objective: To document characteristics of nurses' work interruptions (WIs) during medication
administration. Design: A descriptive observational study design was used along with a …

Interruptions are frequent in many work domains. Researchers in health care have started to
study interruptions extensively, but their studies usually do not use a theoretically guided …

OBJECTIVES: to identify characteristics related to the interruption of nurses in professional
practice, as well as to assess the implications of interruptions for patient safety. METHOD …

The purpose of this state‐of‐the‐science review was to examine empirical evidence from
studies of interruptions conducted in acute care nurses' work environments. A total of 791 …