Reasons for interrupting colleagues during emergency department work – A qualitative study

Work in an emergency department (ED) is characterized by unpredictability in emergency patient attendance, presentation of symptoms and level of acuity. Hence, conditions in an ED may change rapidly and unpredictably, calling for the reprioritization of actions. The ED context consists of multiple teams of clinicians working with different flow processes e.g., triage, surgical patients and orthopedic patients. Further, several care processes for individual patients with different levels of priority occur simultaneously within each flow process and not all team members are concurrently involved in the same care procedures.
Source: International Emergency Nursing - Category: Nursing Authors: Source Type: research