Objective
To analyze the association of patient safety culture perceived by nursing
professionals with incidents recorded during nursing shifts in intensive
care units.
Methods
This was a cross-sectional study that investigated patient safety culture
measured by the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture instrument.
Descriptive statistics, chi-square tests, Student’s
t
-test
and multiple linear regression models were analyzed considering a
significance level of 5%.
Results
The study reported a mean of 3.1 (standard deviation of 0.4) for the culture
of patient safety in the perception of nursing professionals and 480
incidents with and without damage recorded during the nursing shifts. The
variables patient safety culture with a difference between means of 0.543
(95%CI 0.022 - 1.065; p < 0.05) and nursing assistants with a difference
between means of -0.133 (95%CI -0.192 - -0.074; p < 0.05) were associated
with the incidents recorded during the nursing shifts. Further, nursing
assistants had a lower tendency to record incidents than did the nurses.
Conclusion
The strengthening of the patient safety culture and the aspects tangential to
the nursing professionals represent a possible target for interventions to
encourage the recording of incidents during the nursing shift shifts and
improve patient safety.
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