Evaluating the applicability of replication success metrics in animal-to-human translation: A simulation study.

Effective communication and robust teamwork are foundational pillars of high-quality health care delivery, particularly within nursing practice. The intricate nature of patient care necessitates continuous, efficient, and accurate information exchange among health care professionals to ensure comprehensive and holistic patient outcomes []. This “professional communication” is paramount for facilitating information sharing, enhancing the appropriateness of medical interventions, and ultimately improving patient safety []. Conversely, communication failures represent a pervasive and critical issue in modern health care, frequently leading to medical errors, adverse events, and even preventable patient mortality [-]. Indeed, ineffective communication often creates obstacles to information flow among health care teams, a lack of teamwork, organizational inefficiencies, and decreased staff morale. Notably, poor communication has been identified as the sole cause in 13.2% of patient safety incidents and a contributing factor in 24.0% of incidents []. Factors such as hierarchical structures, cultural differences, or even disruptive behaviors in the health care environment can hinder effective communication, highlighting the need for improvements through organizational commitment, training, and standardized policies []. This underscores the urgent necessity for innovative solutions to enhance communication and collaboration within health care teams. Despite the recognized importance of effective communication, nurses frequently encounter significant challenges that impede seamless information transfer and mutual support. For example, traditional nurse call systems are predominantly static and “place-oriented,” confining patients to fixed locations for initiating calls and lacking crucial contextual information regarding patient risk factors or staff availability [,]. This leads to considerable inefficiencies, including unnecessary interruptions for nurses, wasted time spent locating staff (≈10% of nursing time is spent “looking for someone”), and inappropriate call routing, where highly skilled registered nurses are often engaged in tasks outside their professional scope [,]. Such situations can increase nurses’ workload and potentially diminish the quality of care. Furthermore, while digital technologies are increasingly integrated into nursing practice with the aim of improving efficiency and communication, their impact is not always positive. The adoption of information and communication technologies, such as smartphones and wearable devices, indicates a tendency for nurses to use these tools for information retrieval and communication with health care team members. However, their overall impact on nurses’ perceived workload has been complex, often proving “mainly negative” [-]. This suggests that simply introducing technology, without careful consideration of workflow integration and cognitive load, can inadvertently exacerbate existing burdens []. Barriers to the adoption of digital health technologies include infrastructural and technical issues, psychological and personal concerns, and worries about increased working hours and workload. Conversely, training, perceived usefulness, government incentives, and user involvement in development have been identified as facilitators for adoption [].