Situation awareness
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Situation awareness

Lucy Ward Sister, University Hospital Southampton

A CPD article improved Lucy Ward’s understanding of situation awareness and its importance in patient safety

What was the nature of the CPD activity, practice-related feedback and/or event and/or experience in your practice?

The CPD article discussed situation awareness, which refers to the ways people collect (perceive), interpret (comprehend) and use information and make decisions (projection).

Nursing Standard. 31, 28, 64-65. doi: 10.7748/ns.31.28.64.s47

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