Factors Affecting Patient Safety Culture from Nurses’ Perspectives for Sustainable Nursing Practice

Abstract

Individual and group beliefs, attitudes, perceptions, competences, and behavioral patterns all contribute to the safety culture of a healthcare company. The study’s goal is to assess nurses’ perceptions of elements that influence patient safety culture in order to promote long-term nursing practice. A descriptive cross-sectional study design was done among a sample of 146 nurses who were recruited from one hospital in Egypt. They completed a self-administered, printed questionnaire. The questionnaire assessed participants’ socio-demographic data and their perception regarding patient safety culture for sustainable nursing practices. The findings revealed that nursing staff had a high perception regarding patient safety culture a with mean score (159.94 ± 7.864). Also, the highest percentage (74.66%) of had no safety events reported yearly. Creating a unit-specific patient safety culture suited to the competences of the unit’s RNs in patient safety practice would be crucial to increasing and sustaining high levels of patient safety attitudes, skills, and knowledge among the unit’s RNs, influencing patient safety. When implementing interventions to promote patient safety and reporting culture in hospitals, policymakers, hospital administrators, and nurse executives should take the current findings into account. A multidimensional network intervention addressing many elements of patient safety culture and integrating different organizational levels should be implemented to enhance patient safety and a no-blame culture.

Patient safety culture predictors and outcomes for sustainable oncology nursing practice: A cross‐sectional correlational study

“…at hospitals (Abdelaliem & Alsenany, 2022). This finding is consistent with and supported by Alharbi et al (2018) and Abdelaliem and Alsenany (2022), who found that the frequency of events reported had a low mean score and was seen as a possible area for improvement.…”

“…This could be due to poor communication, intense time constraints on staff and economic factors such as the ineffective use of resources (budget, supplies and materials). These result in precarious situations for nurses and sub‐optimal care, and nurses may be reluctant to discuss and report events that might happen at hospitals (Abdelaliem & Alsenany, 2022). This finding is consistent with and supported by Alharbi et al (2018) and Abdelaliem and Alsenany (2022), who found that the frequency of events reported had a low mean score and was seen as a possible area for improvement.…”

“…ON managers should encourage team communication openness since it develops gradually (Albalawi et al, 2020). This can be accomplished by establishing effective supervisory safety communication practices and a comprehensive team communication strategy that includes a standardized escalation mechanism, a structured communication tool, team huddles and daily multidisciplinary patient‐centred rounds (Abdelaliem & Alsenany, 2022; Albalawi et al, 2020). Managers and supervisors should also consider their nursing team's recommendations for enhancing patient safety and should not ignore patient safety issues (El‐Jardali et al, 2014).…”

Nurses' Awareness, Commitment, and Attitudes Regarding Patients Safety Measures

“…Our result revealed that several errors occurred to patients & health care workers per year fewer than two-thirds, this result was congruent with Abdelaliem & Alsenany (41) found that less than a quarter of participants mentioned that event reports yearly were less than 3 and fewer than half perceive patient safety as excellent and about few percent show, it is either acceptable and or poor. Likewise, our result agreed with Ali, et al (42) found that less than one-third of the participants did not report any event, while 69.7% reported from one to more than 11 event reports.…”

Effect of total quality management intervention on nurse commitment and nurse performance: A quasi-experimental study

“…Guaranteeing people’s healthy lives and patient and personnel safety and improving healthcare quality to create an effective healthcare system is crucial for maintaining high living standards. [ 1 , 2 ] Given the technological revolution in the healthcare industry and the need to meet health quality standards for maintaining high-quality services. [ 3 ] Healthcare services management has become challenging in this setting.…”