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The Role of Individual and Collective Mindfulness in Promoting Occupational Safety in Health Care

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Dierynck, Bart, Leroy, Hannes, Savage, Grant T., Choi, Ellen·2017·Medical Care Research and Review

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Although the importance of safety regulations is highly emphasized in hospitals, nurses frequently work around, or intentionally bypass, safety regulations. We argue that work-arounds occur because adhering to safety regulations usually requires more time and work process design often lacks complementarity with safety regulations. Our main proposition is that mindfulness is associated with a decrease in occupational safety failures through a decrease in work-arounds. First, we propose that individual mindfulness may prevent the depletion of motivational resources caused by worrying about the consequences of time lost when adhering to safety regulations. Second, we argue that collective mindfulness may provide nursing teams with a cognitive infrastructure that facilitates the detection and adaptation of work processes. The results of a multilevel analysis of 580 survey responses from nurses are consistent with our propositions. Our multilevel analytic approach enables us to account for the unique variance in work-arounds that individual and collective mindfulness explain.

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Authors
Dierynck, B., Leroy, H., Savage, G. T., & Choi, E.
Affiliations
  • Tilburg University (NL)
  • RSM Erasmus, Rotterdam, Netherlands
  • University of Alabama at Birmingham (US)
  • Ivey Business School (CA)
Corresponding author
Dierynck, Bart
Venue
Medical Care Research and Review
Published
2016-08-03
Volume
74
Issue
1
Pages
79-96
ISSN
  • 1077-5587 (ISSN-L)
  • 1552-6801
OpenAlex
W2341423293
Cited by
71
References
65
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 13 · 2021: 14 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 3
FWCI
9.21
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Medical Care Research and Review (publishedVersion)
  • Research portal (Tilburg University) (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • EUR Research Repository (Erasmus University Rotterdam) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
  • Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
  • EUR Research Repository (Erasmus University Rotterdam) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › Emergency Medical Services › Patient Safety and Medication Errors
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › Radiological and Ultrasound Technology › Occupational Health and Safety Research
  • Health Sciences › Nursing › Research and Theory › Nursing education and management
Keywords
mindfulness, collective mindfulness, occupational safety, workarounds, safety regulations, nurses, patient safety, work process design, nursing team, safety failures
MeSH terms
Adult, Female, Health Promotion, Humans, Male, Nursing Staff, Hospital, Surveys and Questionnaires, Occupational Health, Safety Management, Nurse's Role, Mindfulness

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