Missed care in children's nursing—An emergent concern

“Missed care”, coined initially by Kalisch (2006); and also defined as “unfinished care” or “implicitly rationalized care” (Jones, Hamilton, & Murry, 2015), is becoming of increasing concern to nurses internationally. Missed care is an error of omission in the care process that has three primary influencing factors: labour resources; material resources; and communication (Jones et al., 2015). The way by which these three latter factors influence...