Abstract
Objective To comprehend nurses' psychological experience after adverse nursing events of falling down, and to explore strategies and methods that may help them handling these events. Methods With purposive sampling method, in-depth interview was conducted to 6 clinical nurses from Beijing Ditan Hospital, who had experienced nursing adverse events of falling down from October 2014 to October 2015, with the interview data collected and analyzed. Results Four themes were identified: nurses were distressed when facing with uncontrollable nursing adverse events of falling down; nursing adverse events of falling down could increase nurses' psychological stress and reaction; nursing adverse events of falling down seriously affected the quality of nurses' life and their professional career; nurses wanted to get attention and help after experiencing nursing adverse events of falling down. Conclusions After experiencing adverse nursing events, psychological stress may influence the nurses' work, life and professional value, which requires nursing administrators to provide effective support and intervention. Key words: Nurses; Accidental falling down; Nursing adverse events; Qualitative study
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