From: Outcomes of professional misconduct by nurses: a qualitative study
Main Themes | Sub-themes |
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Physical outcomes | Critical threat to patients |
Weakening patients’ safety | |
Psychological outcomes | Psycho-emotional responses of patients and their families |
Moral distress of nurses | |
Cautionary tale | |
Financial outcomes | Imposing costs on the patient |
The financial loss of the nurse | |
Organizational outcomes | The normalization of misconduct |
Chaos in the organization | |
Waste of the organization’s resources | |
Reputational damage to the organization |