Relationship between Structural Empowerment, Magnet Hospital Characteristics and Patient Safety Climate among Nurses Working in Intensive Care Units | ||
| Zagazig Nursing Journal | ||
| Article 15, Volume 11, Issue 2 - Serial Number 2015, 2015, Pages 219-232 PDF (537.64 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.12816/0029201 | ||
| Author | ||
| Fatma Gouda Metwally | ||
| Lecturer of Nursing Administration- Faculty of Nursing- Zagazig University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: The nursing work environments that empower nurses to practice according to professional standards are more likely to support a culture of patient safety. When nurses find that their work environment provides the necessary information, support, opportunity and resources to accomplish their work, they are more likely to describe their professional practice environment in magnet hospital terms. Aim of the study: was to investigate the relationship < br />between structural empowerment, magnet hospital characteristics and patient safety climate among nurses. Subjects & methods: Research design: A descriptive design was used. Setting: the study was conducted at the medical and surgical intensive care units in Zagazig University Hospitals. Subjects: includes all nurses working in the above mentioned settings (n=263). Tools of data collection: Three tools were used in data collection namely; The Conditions of Work Effectiveness Questionnaire; The Lake's Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index and The Safety Climate Survey. Results: Reveals that positive relationships were found not only between structural empowerment and magnet hospital characteristics but also between these variables and perception of patient safety climate within the units Conclusion: The results of the study revealed that positive relationships were found; not only between structural empowerment and magnet hospital characteristics but also between these variables and perceptions of patients' safety climate among nurses. Recommendations: Nurses must be professionally empowered through formal organizational structures in ways that recognize nurses professionally beyond their ability to simply make clinical decisions, the nurse managers will have to focus less on control and more on the coordination, integration, and facilitation of nurses' work. This can be accomplished by providing access to information, resources, and support that are needed to achieve professional and organizational goals. Patient safety culture must be an integral part of the orientation and ongoing on job educational activities of staff development. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Structural Empowerment; magnet hospital; characteristic; patient safety climate | ||
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