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Work-arounds in health care settings: Literature review and research agenda

...intended work practices. Health care professionals acknowledge widespread use of work-arounds, and the literature documents their prevalence and influence on performance...
12/21/2007 | Health Care Management Review

2.  
The role of continuous quality improvement and psychological safety in predicting work-arounds

...Background: Work-arounds are work procedures that are undertaken to address a block...
6/6/2008 | Health Care Management Review


4.  
Viewpoint: Automated Dispensing Cabinets: Curse or Cure?

...Time-consuming procedures can lead to risky work-arounds....
4/30/2013 | AJN, American Journal of Nursing

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IN THE NEWS: Nurses Have Little Time for Patients

...Work-arounds are not the solution. Koppel and colleagues studied the...
8/29/2008 | AJN, American Journal of Nursing

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Impact of Medication Storage Cabinets on Efficient Delivery of Medication and Employee Frustration

...the automated medication-dispensing system. Unsecured medications due to “work-arounds” were discovered and occurring on a regular basis in...
8/31/2010 | Journal of Nursing Care Quality

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The Promise of PROMIS

...20th Century theory and practice of psychometrics. Most guidelines are work-arounds to well-known limitations of classical test theory (CTT; single...
3/11/2010 | Nursing Research

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Comparing Portable Computers With Bedside Computers When Administering Medications Using Bedside Medication Verification

... found that interruptions were precursors to medication errors and work-arounds when using BMV and documented interruptions in 32% of medication...
1/7/2013 | Journal of Nursing Care Quality

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An Empirical Evaluation of Cusum Control Charts for Use in Robust Quality Control of Surgical and Binary Outcomes

...increased “false alarms.” Previous work has introduced potential work-arounds in the case of continuous data (eg, data that can...
8/1/2008 | Quality Management in Health Care

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Using a Task Analysis to Describe Nursing Work in Acute Care Patient Environments

...Poorly designed hospitals are a contributing factor to "work-arounds" for nurses. Work-arounds are work patterns or shortcuts used...
12/3/2009 | JONA: Journal of Nursing Administration

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