Nursing malpractice: qualche riflessione sul fenomeno

Abstract

[Nursing malpractice: some considerations on the phenomenon]

The phenomenon of medical error is wide known, and many strategies, such as clinical risk management, have been developed in order to stop it. Among these corrective actions, a greater attention has been paid to nursing malpractice, defined as «all adverse events that arise from purely practical nursing, or the participation of registered nurses in collaborative problem-solving». The solution of the problem of nursing malpractice consists in promoting cultural change. We are ready for this challege, by sharing the results with other health care professionals, respecting the competences and the value of all people, catching up the goal “to defeat the error in medicine”. Trust should be part of the solution: it comes to a measurable factor, which consists in collaborating with courage and speaking out.