PERCEPTION OF PATIENT SAFETY CULTURE IN NURSES: A CASE OF UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
HEMŞİRELERDE HASTA GÜVENLİĞİ KÜLTÜRÜ ALGISI:ÜNİVERSİTE HASTANESİ ÖRNEĞİ

Author : Yasemin BİLİŞLİ -- Münevver ERKUL - Nesrin ÖZDOĞAN TÜM
Number of pages : 330-337

Abstract

Development of the patient safety culture has an important place in the success of institutions providing service for patients. The purpose of this study is to determine the perception levels of nurses working at Akdeniz University Hospital regarding the safety culture. Being developed by AHRQ in 2004, the “Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture” was used to collect the data. The data were entered in the SPSS 15.0 program. It was determined that the participants had an average working year of 10 (14%) years and undergraduate education (80%). According to 27.4% of the data, the management provided an appropriate atmosphere for patient safety, and 44.6% considered the patient safety acceptable, 44.7% thought that procedures decreased the error rate and 55.8% prioritized the patient safety rather than doing a greater amount of work. Besides, they also stated that they actively participated in the studies of developing the patient safety (54.5%), did team work in case of an urgent

Keywords

Patient safety; patient safety culture; medical error

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