Table 1.

Summary of analysis of nursing surveillance in the acute care setting

Attributes	Antecedents	Consequences	Related concepts
Process	RN:	Positive:	Observing
Application of behavioural and cognitive processes	Expertise Intuition	Prevention of failure-to-rescue	Assessment Monitoring
Intervention Continuous/frequent	Early recognition skills	Decrease in adverse events	Vigilance Attentiveness
Data collection	Work environment:	Negative:
Data digestion	Staffing adequacy	Adverse events
	Skill mix	Failure-to-rescue
	Work/patient load	Death
	Practice environment