STUDYING THE CULTURE OF PATIENT’S SAFETY FROM NURSES’ VIEWPOINT IN EDUCATIONAL HOSPITALS OF ISFAHAN

Authors

  • Mohammad Javad Alijani Department of Health Services Management, Marvdasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht, Iran.
  • Abbas Yazdanpanah Department of Healthcare Management, Marvdasht branch, Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht, Iran.
  • Babak Behzadi Department of Health Services Management, Marvdasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht, Iran.
  • Mohammad Hossein Pour Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
  • Seyed Hadi Alavi zadeh Abargho Department of Health Services Management, Marvdasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht, Iran.

Keywords:

culture of patient’s safety, nurse, hospital.

Abstract

Background and goal: Patients’ safety and quality are the heart of health services. Improving safety culture in health care is a necessity for preventing or decreasing faults and total improvement of health care quality. The goal of this study is studying the viewpoint of Isfahan hospitals about patient’s safety culture in 2013.

Tools and methods: This is a descriptive-sectional study that is performed by means of 290 nurses of three selected hospitals in Isfahan. Sampling is done stratified and according to the volume of each category. Tool of collecting information was a questionnaire about evaluating patient’s safety culture by likert scale. SPSS 22, descriptive statistics, Kruskal–Wallis test and analysis of variance with P-value of 0/05 were used to analyze data.

Results: Using Kruskal–Wallis test and analysis of variance, equality of means in each aspect in investigated hospitals was approved, (p<0/05). Points were evaluated in seven aspects of safety culture. Average of positive points in evaluated hospitals was %58/44 and negative points was %19/87 and this showed that culture in Isfahan hospitals was almost in a desirable situation. Totally, aspect of communication transparency gained the lowest point of %49 and team work with %81 gained the highest point.

Conclusion: Regarding the study results, to have the highest improvement in safety culture, especially in the aspect of communication, more planning is needed to achieve better or more qualitative care of inpatients in hospitals.

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Published

2016-09-15

How to Cite

Alijani, M. J. ., Yazdanpanah, A. ., Behzadi, B. ., Pour, M. H. ., & Abargho, S. H. A. zadeh . (2016). STUDYING THE CULTURE OF PATIENT’S SAFETY FROM NURSES’ VIEWPOINT IN EDUCATIONAL HOSPITALS OF ISFAHAN. International Journal of Research and Development in Pharmacy & Life Sciences, 5(5), 2311-2314. Retrieved from https://www.ijrdpl.com/index.php/ijrdpl/article/view/256

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 5 (2016): Volume 5 Issue 5, August - September (2016)

Section

Research
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