An exploration of nurses lived experiences of psychological safety.
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Do nurses feel psychologically safe at work? A critical interpretive phenomenological analysis of the lived experiences of nurses and their willingness to speak up about patient safety concerns.
IRAS ID
274517
Contact name
Dorothy Hannis
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Teesside University
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
not applicable, not applicable
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 6 months, 7 days
Research summary
Using interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA), this study aims to explore the lived experiences of nurses working in an acute Trust in North East of England to understand their ability and willingness to speak up about issues or concerns relating to patient safety. The study aims to provide insight into the needs of nurses to enable them to feel psychologically safe at work to talk about patient safety concerns. This builds upon the inquiry at Mid Staffordshire hospital, and a later report by Sir Robert Francis (2015) who made a recommendation that NHS Trusts should have a strategy to support staff who want to raise concerns about poor care or patient safety issues.
Sample selection will use a stratified theoretical/purposeful process with inclusion criteria encompassing all grades of registered nurses, male and female, who have varying degrees of experience including newly qualified to very experienced nurses as well as nurses from different ethnic background working at University Hospital of North Tees (see appendices 1 for inclusion criteria).
The sample size will be approx 6-10 based on information power (Malterud and Guassora 2015) with individuals selected by a gatekeeper (Cate Small, Organisational Development Lead). Potential participants will be provided with information using a Participant Information Sheet (see appendices 2). Informed consent (appendices 3) will be obtained and verified immediately prior to the interview at Teesside University. The exclusion criteria will be any nurses who have association with the researcher. Data collection using semi-structured interviews (appendices 4) for approximately 60 minutes, audio recorded. Data will be transcribed verbatim and analysed using thematic analysis. Personal information will be deleted from the server and hard copies will be shredded six months after completion of study. The non-identifiable research data will be stored for 2 years on a secure password protected server at Teesside University.REC name
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