Measuring Attitudes Toward Nursing Safety Violations

This study measured implicit and explicit attitudes toward major nursing safety violations using the Implicit Association Test (IAT) and self-reported questionnaires,respectively. Experiment 1 sampled nursing students (n¼71), and Experiment 2 sampled patient safety nurses (n¼38). Although reaction time to IAT stimuli of major nursing safety violations was quicker than of general nursing behav…