The clinical surveillance process as carried out by expert nurses in a critical care context: A theoretical explanation

Nursing Science presents surveillance as an indispensable component of patient safety. Although the literature defines surveillance fully, its implementation is not well understood.This research aims to formulate a theoretical explanation of the surveillance process that expert nurses employ in critical care.To develop the theoretical explanation for the surveillance process of critical care nurses, Strauss and Corbin's (1998) grounded theory...