Table 1 Semi-structured interview question guide

Areas under investigation

General data

Gender, age, nursing education, years of nursing experience; current role (RN, NM); unit (medical or surgical).

Questions

1_ Might you describe your direct experience or indirect experience of witnessing other colleagues, of nursing care interventions conducted in an anticipated manner rather than at their expected time?

2_ Might you describe the nursing interventions that you experienced or witnessed to be anticipated most frequently in your daily nursing care?

3_ Might you share your perceptions regarding why these interventions were anticipated? Who takes the initiative to anticipate nursing interventions? For which patients? Might you report the conditions when this phenomenon occurred in your experience (e.g. shifts …).

4_ What effects did you observe in patients exposed to nursing interventions that were delivered early?

5_Please feel free to share other elements of this phenomenon.