Anne Kanerva

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Clinical Nurse Specialist at Central Finland Health Care District, Jyväskylä, Finland

Purpose The organisational level and leadership development are crucial elements in advancing patient safety, because patient safety weaknesses are often caused by system failures. However, little is known about how frontline leader and director teams can be supported to develop patient safety practices. The purpose of this study was to describe t...

Accessible summary Communication is important for safe and quality health care. The study provides needed insight on the communication elements that support patient safety from the psychiatric care view. Fluent information transfer between the health care professionals and care units is important for care planning and maintaining practices. Informa...

PurposeThis study aims to explore nursing staff's perceptions of patient safety in psychiatric inpatient care.Design and Methods Nurses were asked to describe their perceptions in semi-structured interviews, and their responses were analyzed by inductive content analysis.FindingsNurses addressed two sets of factors: one related to the experiences o...

Patient safety is widely discussed, but little has been written from the perspective of psychiatric inpatient care, nor on which factors create its patient safety. This paper seeks to understand the concept of patient safety and its intension in psychiatric inpatient care, and to identify factors in organization management, staff and patients' role...

The purpose of this study was to describe the experiences of unsuccessful applicants for permanent nursing positions with regard to the fairness of the recruitment process. The international shortage of recruits in nursing and the rapidly increasing number of nurses retiring implies new challenges for recruitment. The nurses' experiences of fairnes...