Patient safety culture in Palestine: university hospital nurses’ perspectives

Zabin, Loai M.; Zaitoun, Rasha S. Abu; Abdullah, Abdullah A.

doi:10.1186/s12912-022-00987-y

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“…The study further revealed that good and open communication, as well as the use of various communication methods, including the adoption of WhatsApp social network applications enabled flexible communication within teams. This finding is consistent with a Palestinian study which postulated that the dimension of communication openness was a predictor of the overall perceptions of safety [ 30 ]. This is an indication of a promising development of patient safety culture in the study regions, although there are numerous areas that require improvement.…”

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Hospital managers’ views on the state of patient safety culture across three regions in Ghana

Tenza

Attafuah

Abor

et al. 2022

BMC Health Serv Res

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Background Improving patient safety culture in healthcare organisations contributes positively to the quality of care and patients’ attitudes toward care. While hospital managers undoubtedly play critical roles in creating a patient safety culture, in Ghana, qualitative studies focussing on hospital managers’ views on the state of patient safety culture in their hospitals remain scanty. Objective This study aimed to explore the views of hospital managers regarding compliance to patient safety culture dimensions in the selected hospitals in the Bono, Greater Accra, and Upper East regions of Ghana. Methodology This was a qualitative exploratory study. A purposive sampling of all hospital managers involved in patient safety practices was conducted. The sampled managers were then invited to a focus group discussion. Twelve focus group discussions with each consisting of a maximum of twelve participants were conducted. The ten patient safety culture dimensions adapted from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s patient safety culture composite measures framed the interview guide. Deductive thematic content analysis was done. Lincoln and Guba’s methods of trustworthiness were applied to ensure that the findings are valid and reliable. Findings Positive patient safety culture behaviours such as open communication, organisational learning, and strong teamwork within units, were an established practice in the selected facilities across Ghana. Lack of teamwork across units, fear of reporting adverse events, the existence of a blame culture, inconsistent response to errors, extreme shortage of staff, sub-standard handover, lack of management support with resources constrained the patient safety culture. The lack of standardised policies on reporting adverse events and response to errors encouraged managers to use various approaches, some resulting in a blame culture. Staff shortage contributed to poor quality of safety practices including poor handover which was also influenced by lateness to duty. Conclusion Prompt and appropriate responses by managers to medical errors require improvements in staffing and material resources as well as the enactment of standard policies across health facilities in the country. By so doing, hospital managers would contribute significantly to patient safety, and help build a patient safety culture in the selected hospitals.

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confidence: 92%

Hospital managers’ views on the state of patient safety culture across three regions in Ghana

Tenza

Attafuah

Abor

et al. 2022

BMC Health Serv Res

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“…As regards working hours per week, nearly tow-third were worked more than 36 hours per week, similarly, Zabin, et al (39) , found that majority of the participants worked about 40 to 69 h a week, while almost a third of them worked about 20 to 29hrs a week. Additionally, Teleş & Kaya (40) found that the participants had 6 years of professional experience and worked for 60hrs or more per week, this indicates the shortage of nurses as a global and or may be increased demands of nurses services as a response to increasing populations and number of hospitals.…”

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

Mohammed

Elsayed

Hamed

2022

Zagazig Nursing Journal

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Background:Patient safety measures are directed to prevent or minimize complications and adverse event incident that needs the collaboration of all health staff. Nurses have a significant role in improving patient safety as major personnel dealing continuously over 24 hours with the patients. Aim of the study: Assess nurses' awareness, commitment, and attitudes regarding patient safety measures. Subjects and Method: Research design: A cross-sectional, descriptive design was utilized. . Setting:The study was conducted at Medical-Surgical Units of Zagazig university hospitals . Subject: A convenient sampling of 100 nurses selected from theses units in the period of March to January 2021. Tools of data collection : Two tools were used for data collection. Tool (I): A structured interviewing questionnaire that included four parts: demographic characteristics of participants, nurses' awearness, commitment, and attitude's regarding patient safety measures. Tool (II): was perceived implicit rationing of nursing care. Results: the majority of participants were females, about two third had technical nursing institute, with professional experience ranging from six to ten years, nearly two-thirds worked for more than 36 hours weekly, less than half didn't receive training courses regarding patient safety, more than three quarters reported that safety measures were excellent and had total satisfactory awareness regarding patients safety, nearly to half had high commitment level score, less than two-thirds had total positive attitudes, only half had a satisfactory total safety practices knowledge level score, more than quarter were rating missed nursing care as high and or moderate. A statistically significant difference and positive correlation were found between the demographic characteristics of participants and their awareness' level scores as well as with safety commitment, attitudes, and missed nursing care.Conclusion : Gaining confirmation regarding the level of nurses' awearness, commitment, and attitudes, toward patient safety measures are significant to undertake the essential strategies required to minimize the burden of health care, and its related effects. Recommendations:Continuously training on patient safety measures must be provided to nurses to be proficient, devoted, updating regarding patients' safety measures.

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“…Using different study designs, such as qualitative research and a variety of data collection methods, could help improve understanding of the safety culture and health care provider perceptions and would be required to address the existing relationship between safety culture and nursing competency (Alqattan et al, 2019) Measurement of safety nursing competency Eight of the studies, or 50% of the literature, in this review showed that nurses were more competent in communicating effectively than working in teams with colleagues, and their overall safety culture score was positive. Likewise, Zabin et al (2022) found that both organizational learning and continuous improvement, as well as cooperation within units, received the highest composite frequency of patient safety perception.…”

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confidence: 94%

Clinical nurse competence and its effect on patient safety culture: A Systematic Review

Zaitoun

Said

Tantillo

2022

Preprint

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Background: Unsafe health practices are one of the leading causes of disability and even death. Competent nurses are crucial to ensure safe and high-quality health care services. The patient safety culture is concerned with internalizing safety beliefs, values, and attitudes, translating them into health care practices, and committing to maintain an error-free health environment. A high level of competence ensures the achievement and compliance with the safety culture goal. Objective This systematic review aims to identify the relationship between the level of nursing competence and the safety culture score and perception among nurses at their workplace. Methods: Four international online databases were searched to find relevant studies published between 2018 and 2022. Peer-reviewed articles using quantitative methods, targeting nursing staff, written in English were included. After reviewing 117 identified articles, 16 full-text studies were included. The PRISMA 2020 checklist for systematic reviews was used. Results: Evaluation of the articles indicates safety culture, competency, and perception are assessed using a wide variety of instruments. Safety culture was generally perceived as positive. No unique and standard tool has been developed to investigate the effect of safety competency on the perception of the safety culture in a standardized way. Conclusions: Existing research provides evidence of a positive correlation between the nursing competence and patient safety score. Future research is recommended to investigate ways to measure the effect of nursing competency level on safety culture in health care institutions. Relevance for Clinical Practice Clinicians and leaders in the clinical setting may consider applying the findings of this study to address nursing competence as a component of addressing the patient safety culture in their practice setting.

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Patient safety culture in Palestine: university hospital nurses’ perspectives

Cited by 15 publications

References 28 publications

Hospital managers’ views on the state of patient safety culture across three regions in Ghana

Hospital managers’ views on the state of patient safety culture across three regions in Ghana

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

Clinical nurse competence and its effect on patient safety culture: A Systematic Review

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