"Doctor, Please": Educating Nurses To Speak Up With Interactive Digital Simulation Tablets

Background: Courses are developed to train on open communication. This study focuses on speaking-up for scrub nurses.Method: The scenario is implemented on digital tablets, with vignettes involving problematic behaviours of a colleague with the same or different status. The nurses (N = 33) were asked whether they would point out the error, whether they would be embarrassed, and how they would do it.Results: Nurses expressed greater embarrassment with a colleague of a different status. This is confirmed by their phrasing and the strategies they reported when speaking to the surgeon.Conclusion: The scenario was well accepted and could be used to train other health professionals. (C) 2021 International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning. Publishedby Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.