Perception of Nurses and Physicians toward Safety Culture at Damanhour National Medical Institute | ||
| Zagazig Nursing Journal | ||
| Article 1, Volume 10, Issue 2 - Serial Number 2014, 2014, Pages 1-17 PDF (153.82 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.12816/0029146 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Seham Mohamed Darwish1; Gehan Galal El Bialy2; Yaldez Khairy Zein El Din3 | ||
| 1Nurse Manager of operation department- Damanhour National Medical Institute- Damanhour | ||
| 2Assistant Professor- Nursing Administration Department- Faculty of Nursing, Alexandria University | ||
| 3Lecturer- Nursing Administration Department- Faculty of Nursing- Damanhour University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: International patient's safety strategies advocate measuring safety culture as a strategy to improve patient's safety. Safety culture is the set of values, beliefs, and norms about what is important, how to behave, and what attitudes are appropriate when it comes to patient safety in a workgroup. Aim: To identify health nurses and physicians’ perception toward patient safety culture. Setting: All inpatients and outpatients units at Damanhour National Medical Institute (n=18). Subjects: 50 Professional nurses, 200 technical nurses and 100 physicians. Tool: Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSPSC) was used. The tool contains 42 items that measure 12 dimensions each dimension includes 3 or 4 survey items. Results: The dimension "teamwork within units" received the highest mean percent score for nurses (80.3±10.4) and physicians (74.0±12.7), while, "handoffs and transitions" dimension received the lowest mean percent score for nurses (58.9±13.5). As for physicians, the lowest mean percent score was for “team work across units” with a score of (61.6±10.2). Regarding nurses’ educational qualification, nursing staff differed significantly in their perception to the overall patient safety culture (p=0.029). Regarding the physicians, there were significant differences in their perception of the overall patient safety culture as for age groups (p=0.004), their working hours (p=0.014), their years of experience in hospital (p=0.000) and years of experience in unit (p=0.000). Conclusion: The study concluded that the dimension "teamwork within units" received the highest mean percent score for nurses and physicians, while "handoffs and transitions" dimension received the lowest mean percent score for nurses. As for physicians, the lowest mean percent score was for “team work across units”. Recommendations: A training program for nurses about appropriate patient handoff and transfer, for physicians about the importance of team work and how to establish an effective team. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Patient Safety Culture; HSPSC; Team work across units; handoffs and transitions; overall perception of safety culture | ||
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