scholarly journals A Perception of health care providers toward quality work environment and patients’ safety culture at hemodialysis units.

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (12) ◽  
pp. 110-128
Author(s):  
Maha Adel Salem ◽  
Hala Ahmed Abdou ◽  
Hoda Ibrahim El-Trawy
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Nursing Staff ◽  
Safety Culture ◽  
Patient Safety Culture ◽  
Practice Environment ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Ministry Of Health ◽  
Safety Work

Many changes have been made in the healthcare practice environment. Understanding of quality practice environment in hemodialysis units has certain implications for maximizing outcomes for clients, nurses, and systems. Developing quality practice environments takes time and commitment to promote and support patients’ safety. Hence improving safety patient culture is vital in dialysis units because it requires for reducing risks for harm, errors of patients and delivering high quality of patients care. The Study aimed to determine the perception of nursing staff’ toward quality practice environment and patients’ safety at Hemodialysis units. Methodology, data collection was utilized a descriptive correlational design for this study, all nursing staff amounted to (n= 90) They are classified into: all head nurses n = 7,, and all nurses who have either diploma (n = 40) or baccalaureate degree (n = 43) who are affiliated to all hemodialysis units (n =7) at Ministry of Health ,Egypt. A package composed of two instruments was used, namely: Environment Scale-Nursing Work Index (PES-NWI) and Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSPSC). Results, the major findings indicated that there is a positive correlation significant among practice work environment and patient safety culture except for staffing and resource adequacy in all hemodialysis units of Ministry of Health Hospitals. Also, results point out that the organizational structure of the Ministry of Health Hospitals is characterized by unhealthy environment and unsafe climate that force the nursing staff to have low perception toward most of quality practice environment and patient safety culture factors. The study recommended that initiating a blame-free reporting system to prevent re-occurrence of problems and actions to eliminate them from the workplace by detecting, evaluating, preventing and treating safety work environment

scholarly journals Patient Safety Culture and Spiritual Health in the Operating Room: A Qualitative Study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elahe mousavi ◽  
Behzad Imani
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Patient Safety ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Safety Culture ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Patient Safety Culture ◽  
Spiritual Health ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Safety Skills

Abstract Background The concept of patient safety is an essential component of health care systems and is one of the key pillars of quality in health care organizations. One of the most important factors related to the safety of patients is the spiritual health of staff and patients. Accordingly, this study strived to explain the status of patient safety culture and its relationship with spiritual health from the perspective of health care providers in teaching hospitals of Hamadan.Methods This study was a qualitative content analysis study with a conventional approach using semi-structured open-ended interviews with samples selected by purposeful sampling technique to achieve data saturation. The proposed method of Granheim and Landman (2004) was also used for the qualitative content analysis of the data.Results In this study, 5 themes and 11 sub-themes were obtained from the participants' experiences. These included: continuous and dynamic training and upgrading of safety skills, attention to spirituality and conscientiousness and work commitment, effective communication and teamwork, equipping human and logistical resources based on the principle of care, accurate recognition of instructions, and error control.Conclusions The evaluation of safety culture clarifies the perceptions of safety participants in the organization and the attitude of managers and employees towards safety issue which can lead to the development of safety culture and quality improvement.

scholarly journals Perception of patient safety culture among health-care providers in a Tertiary Care Hospital, South India

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adhisakthi Rajalatchumi ◽  
ThanjavurS Ravikumar ◽  
Kaliaperumal Muruganandham ◽  
Mahalakshmy Thulasingam ◽  
Kalaiselvi Selvaraj ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Patient Safety ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Safety Culture ◽  
South India ◽  
Tertiary Care Hospital ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Patient Safety Culture ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Care Providers

scholarly journals Medication safety practices in healthcare facilities in Kaduna State, Nigeria: a study protocol

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 204209862092757
Author(s):  
Basira Kankia Lawal ◽  
Alhaji A. Aliyu ◽  
Umar Idris Ibrahim ◽  
Bilkisu Bello Maiha ◽  
Shafiu Mohammed
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Patient Safety ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Safety Culture ◽  
Medication Safety ◽  
Patient Safety Culture ◽  
Phase Iii ◽  
World Health ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Safety Practices

Background: In recent years, there has been growing concern about patient safety and this is becoming a global problem. Medication safety can be used to describe systematic assessments of healthcare professionals’ practices as related to safe use of medicines. Identification and prevention of medication errors is the key component of medication safety. This includes multiple aspects of medication practice and other factors that affect it, such as organisational structure, communication, technologies such as those used for dispensing, and strategies pursued by leadership in cultivating and promoting a culture of safety. Methods: The study adopted a mixed method approach divided into three phases. Phase I is a quantitative phase and involves an assessment of core medication safety practices in the study sites together with an assessment of patient safety culture through the use of the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSOPSC) developed by US Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ). Phase II will involve semi-structured interviews with health care providers and focus group discussions with patients to explore their perspectives on medication safety and to explore their experiences concerning medication safety respectively. Phase III will be an intervention study and will utilise the World Health Organisation (WHO) Patient Safety Curriculum Guide: Multi professional edition as the intervention tool. Discussion: The study findings will offer substantial opportunity for improvements. The study will also open up an area of patient safety culture, where not much research has been conducted in Nigeria.

Patient safety culture as perceived by intern-ship nursing students

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Safaa Mohamed ◽  
Fatma Rushdy
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Safety Culture ◽  
Patient Safety Culture ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Work Area ◽  
Hospital Work ◽  
Positive Correlations

Background: Patient Safety Culture is a relatively new concept in health management. Highly reliable health care providers have a patient safety culture incorporated in them. Aim: To assess perception of internship nursing students about patient safety culture during their work-ing at Minia and Assiut Universities Hospitals. Subjects and methods: Descriptive correlation design was utilized for this current study. A convenience sample of nurses' intern, equal both to participate 200 nurse intern from Minia and Assiut Universities Hospitals. The data collected through self-administered questionnaire which includes personal characteristics data and patient safety culture questionnaire. Re-sults: Illustrated the positive correlation between all factors of patient safety culture among internship nursing students in Minia and patient safety level with highly statistically significant differences. There were positive correlations between hospital work area / unit and residence with statistically significant differences. Conclusions: There were positive correlations among studied internship nursing students as regard to the level of patient safety and all factors of patient safety cultures (Hospital work area, your supervisor, Communication, Frequency of events reported, Patient safety at your hospital). Recommendations: Study the association between patient safety culture and quality of care from patients’ perspectives.

Patient safety culture among health care provider’s in a Tunisian university hospital

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Latifa Merzougui ◽  
Sarra Sghaier ◽  
Nedia Radaoui ◽  
Dhekra Chebil ◽  
Elyes Turki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Patient Safety ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Safety Culture ◽  
Patient Safety Culture ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Work Units

Patient safety is considered a major priority in health care systems. In Tunisia, few attempts have been made since 2011 to evaluate PS culture. The purpose of this study was to measure the patient safety culture level at Ibn El Jazzar hospital in Kairouan, Tunisia. This cross-sectional study was conducted over three months in 2015 in a Tunisian University hospital. The French model of the Hospital Survey On Patient Safety Culture “HSOPSC” was used to explore 10 dimensions of patient safety culture. The survey was distributed to 446 health care providers (physicians and nurses). A score per composite has been calculated. Then the results were compared according to professional categories and work units. The overall average positive response rate for the 10 PS culture composites of the HSOPSC survey was 61.65%. Areas with potential for improvement were overall perception of security (40.73%), leadership (30.9%), organizational learning (41.9%), communication openness (38.3%) and frequency of events reported (33.2%). The area of strength was teamwork within units (58.1%). Non-punitive response to error had the lowest score (29.6%). The comparison of the scores according to professional category showed a significant difference for one composite score, which was the non-punitive answer to the errors particular to nurses (16.3% vs 32.7%; p = 0.020). In contrast, no significant difference between work units was found for all composites scores in our study. Our results demonstrate that patient safety culture remains undeveloped and should be improved at Ibn El Jazzar hospital. Therefore, further studies should be conducted in the context of continuous assessment quality of care.

The Influence of Nursing Work Environment on Patient Safety

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (8) ◽  
pp. 384-390
Author(s):  
Maha Mihdawi ◽  
Rasmieh Al-Amer ◽  
Rima Darwish ◽  
Sue Randall ◽  
Tareq Afaneh
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Safety Culture ◽  
Patient Safety Culture ◽  
Professional Communication ◽  
Communication Style ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Nursing Work Environment ◽  
Work Index ◽  
Public And Private Hospitals

Background: Patient safety has been a concern over the past two decades. The value of nurses and their work environment in relation to patient safety has been acknowledged by studies and international organizations. This study aimed to examine the relationship between patient safety practices and the nursing work environment. Methods: In total, 570 registered nurses were invited from the inpatient units in public and private hospitals. Perceived patient safety was evaluated using the Overall Perceptions of Patient Safety subscale from the Hospital Survey of Patient Safety Culture (HSPSC). The nursing work environment was assessed using the Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index (PES-NWI). Findings: Of the 350 of 570 (64.6%) nurses surveyed, 35.2% (125) reported positive levels of perceived patient safety. Staffing and resource adequacy, professional communication style, and nurses’ participation in hospital quality improvement activities were associated with higher levels of perceived patient safety. Conclusion/Application to Practice: This study provided empirical results about perceived patient safety culture in relation to nursing work environment. It is paramount to focus on specific dimensions of the nursing work environment, such as staffing and resource adequacy, nurses’ participation and advancement, and communication style to improve the quality of care provided to patients. Hospitals are considered one of the most hazardous places compared with industries. Policy makers would help reduce injuries, save resources, and build a culture of safety when taking into consideration the importance of the nursing work environment in relation to patient safety.

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