Does Surgical Nurses’ Commitment to the Profession Affect Their Attitudes to Patient Safety? A Descriptive Study

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Background: Nursing is a profession group where professional commitment is very important. Nurses with high professional commitment considered that they provide patient benefit in their jobs and to be more motivated by the profession. Positive attitudes and practices towards patient safety are very important due to the nature of surgical nursing. Objective: The study was designed to examine the effect of surgical nurses professional commitment on patient safety. Methods: The study was conducted using cross-sectional and descriptive design. Two hundred and seventy-two nurses included the study who is working in surgical units of a university and a public hospital was included in the study between May-June 2019. The instruments for data collection were 'Nurse Description Form' and 'Patient Safety Information Form', Nursing Professional Commitment Scale (NPCS) and Patient Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (PSAQ) were obtained. In the analysis of the data was used in SPSS 15.0 statistical package program. Results: The average of NPCS was 73.91 ± 11.98, and the mean of PSAQ was 159.58 ± 26.38. There were significant difference between the nurses' age, working year and institution studied whit Willingness to Effort. There were significant difference between the nurses' age and the institution with the NPCS. There was a significant difference between nurses' professional year and teamwork, safety climate, stress diagnostic sub-dimensions and total mean scores of PSAQ. Conclusions: In the study, a positive and moderate relationship was found between surgical nurses' perception of commitment to profession and patient safety attitude. Professional Commitment to the profession in nursing was found to be an important factor in explaining the patient safety attitude, which was a dependent variable. Key Words: Surgical Nursing, Professional Commitment, Patient Safety,

Anahtar Kelimeler

• surgical nursing
• professional commitment
• patient safety

Cerrahi Hemşirelerinin Mesleğe Bağlılıkları Hasta Güvenliğine Yönelik Tutumlarını Etkiler mi? Tanımlayıcı Bir Çalışma

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Hemşirelik, mesleki bağlılığın çok önemli olduğu bir meslek grubudur. Mesleki bağlılığı yüksek olan hemşireler, işlerinde hasta yararı sağladıklarını ve mesleğe daha fazla motive olduklarını düşünmektedirler. Cerrahi hemşireliğinin doğası gereği hasta güvenliğine yönelik olumlu tutum ve uygulamalar çok önemlidir. Amaç: Çalışma, cerrahi hemşirelerinin mesleki bağlılıklarının hasta güvenliğine etkisini incelemek amacıyla planlandı. Gereç ve Yöntem: Çalışma kesitsel ve tanımlayıcı desen kullanılarak yapıldı. Çalışmaya Mayıs-Haziran 2019 tarihleri arasında bir üniversite ve bir devlet hastanesinin cerrahi birimlerinde çalışan 72 hemşire dahil edildi. Veri toplama araçları olarak 'Hemşire Tanıtım Formu' ve 'Hasta Güvenliği Bilgi Formu', Hemşirelik Mesleğine Bağlılık Ölçeği (HMBÖ) ve Hasta Güvenliği Tutumları Anketi (HGTÖ) kullanıldı. Verilerin analizinde SPSS 15.0 istatistik paket programı kullanılmıştır. Bulgular: Araştırmada, HGTÖ ortalaması 73.91 ± 11.98, HGTÖ ortalaması 159.58 ± 26.38 olarak bulunmuştur. Hemşirelerin yaşı, çalışma yılı ve çalışılan kurum ile Çaba Gösterme İstekliliği arasında ve yine hemşirelerin yaşı ile çalışılan kurum arasında HMBÖ ile anlamlı fark bulundu. Hemşirelerin mesleki yılı ile HGTÖ 'nun ekip çalışması, güvenlik iklimi, stres tanılama alt boyutları ve toplam puan ortalamaları arasında istatistiksel ilişki saptandı. Sonuç: Araştırmada, cerrahi hemşirelerinin mesleğe bağlılık algısı ile hasta güvenliği tutumu arasında pozitif yönde ve orta düzeyde bir ilişki bulundu. Hemşirelikte mesleğe bağlılık, bağımlı değişken olan hasta güvenliği tutumunu açıklamada önemli bir faktör olarak değerlendirildi.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• cerrahi hemşireliği
• mesleğe bağlılık
• hasta güvenliği

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