Assessment of patient safety culture in viewpoints of Kashan hospitals nurses 2016
Journal Title: International Journal of Medical Research & Health Sciences (IJMRHS) - Year 2016, Vol 5, Issue 11
Abstract
Patient safety, i.e. prevention of any hurt to the patient, is one of the main factors of health care quality. Improving patient safety culture through the implementation of systems and processes necessary to work can play an important role in preventing errors and improving the quality. For this purpose, the status of patient safety culture in Kashsn hospitals was examined. This cross - sectional study was performed in five hospitals of Kashan University of Medical Sciences and one Social Security Hospital, by a 42-item standard patient safety questionnaire with a random sampling of 200 nurses available in 2016. Mean age, experience, experience in the last unit of work, experience in nursing profession, work hours per week were obtained 34.28 ± 6.89, 7.72 ± 5.1, 5.87 ± 4 .2, 10.42±7.93years and 62.8±26.8hours, respectively. A verage of safety culture and its dimensions including teamwork within the units, in line with expectations and the head of patient safety, patient safety management support, organizational learning and continuous improvement, the general perception of patient safety, communication and feedback about errors were obtained 2.88±0.56, 3.04 ±069, 2.87±0.79, 3.08±0.88, 2.96±0.54, 2.87±0.98, 2 .81±0.59, 2.52±0.98, 2.91±0.43, 3.14±1.04, 2.99±0.54, respect ively. According to the obtained results, the status of safety culture in hospitals was deemed unfavorable and seemed to need development by training and proper guidelines in order to establish a culture of patient safety and prevention of hurt to patients in order to assure their safety at the hospitals.
Authors and Affiliations
Mohammad Reza Sharif| Infectious Diseases Research Center, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran, Monika Motaghi| Clinical Research Center, Shahid Beheshti Hospital, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran Corresponding Email: Monika3005@yahoo.co.uk, Alireza Farrokhian| Infectious Diseases Research Center, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran
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