Research Article

Patient Safety Culture for Nurses: A Sectional Study at a University Hospital

Volume: 16 Number: 28 August 31, 2020
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Patient Safety Culture for Nurses: A Sectional Study at a University Hospital

Abstract

Present research was carried out in prescriptive and sectional way to determine the nurses' perceptions of patient safety culture and the individual and professional factors that affect them. The research was carried out with 650 nurses working in a university hospital in Istanbul. The data were obtained by using “The Information Form” and “The Patient Safety Culture Scale”. In the evaluation of the data, Student's t test, One-way ANOVA test, Bonferroni test and Games-Howell test were used as well as descriptive statistical methods like mean, standard deviation, median, frequency, rate, minimum, maximum. The average age of the nurses participating in the study is 35.83±8.92 years and 68.9% of them have bachelor’s degree in their field. From the patient safety culture scale of nurses, the subscale mean scores respectively were; "general security" 3.27±0.57, "organizational learning" 3.30±0.69, "teamwork" 2.86±0.93, "evaluation of errors" 3.23±0.73, "employment ”2.72±0.55,“ support of hospital management ”2.92 ± 0.83,“ inter-unit relations” 2.87 ± 0.74,“ task change” 2.68 ± 0.79, “error reporting” 2.93 ± 1.12 and “corporate communication” was found to be 3.10 ± 1.86; nurses got the highest score from the “organizational learning” sub-dimension and the lowest score from the “task change” sub-dimension. The scale average score was determined as 3.01 ± 0.46. Patient safety culture perception found meaningfully high for those nurses who are 35 years old and above; have ten years of experience in the profession, work in services in the hospitals; work in internal medicine units; reported us that they had the training for patient security in their institutions; and who received positive feedback and from management when the problems reported to. The patient safety culture was found to be moderate in the nurses participating in the study. Strategies should be developed to create corporate culture in order to raise awareness about patient safety.

Keywords

Patient safety , nurse , patient safety culture

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APA
Afşar Doğrusöz, L., Polat, Ş., & Karakoç Kumsar, A. (2020). Hemşirelerde Hasta Güvenliği Kültürü: Bir Üniversite Hastanesinde Kesitsel Bir Araştırma. OPUS International Journal of Society Researches, 16(28), 1374-1395. https://doi.org/10.26466/opus.687171