Abstract
Patient safety is a critical and long-standing issue in nursing research. The purposes of this study were to explore the knowledge structure of patient safety and to provide a direction for future research by offering new perspectives and a theoretical clarification of patient safety in nursing. Keyword network analysis was performed by extracting keywords from abstracts of 6072 published articles. To reflect nursing perspectives, focus group interviews were conducted and Kim's typology consisting of four domains was used as the framework of analysis. Visualized knowledge structure showed avoiding medication error and preventing pressure ulcers or falls remain important topics within this research field. The distribution of core keywords as per four domains was in the following order: practice, client, environment, and client-nurse domain. Within the client domain, patients' harm-related core keywords were limited to physical harm. The detailed knowledge structure consisted of five themes: patient, preventable patient harm, practice, error, and environment. It comprised risk assessment for patients' characteristics and environmental elements surrounding patient and nursing practice, and risk management using information as knowledge-based nursing practice. Regarding further research, we suggest a multidimensional approach to patient harm, and the utilization of the client-nurse relationship and information systems as strategies for patient safety.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 67-76 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | CIN - Computers Informatics Nursing |
Volume | 41 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2023 Feb 16 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was partially supported by the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing Lambda Alpha-at-Large in 2019.
Publisher Copyright:
© Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Keywords
- Data visualization
- Knowledge
- Network analysis
- Nursing
- Patient safety
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Health Informatics
- Nursing (miscellaneous)