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- Nurses´ perception of patient safety culture in emergency and critical care services of maternal and child health department of an University HospitalPublication . Fuseini, Abdul-Karim Jebuni; Costa, Emilia Isabel Martins Teixeira da; Matos, Filomena Adelaide Pereira Sabino deIntroduction: The ultimate goal of every health institution is quality health care. Patient safety is one of the characteristics of high-quality healthcare delivery. Patient safety remains a difficulty in health care delivery, despite technical advancements in medicine and health research, as well as sophisticated health facilities. Many patients still inadvertently get hurt in their pursuit of medical and health care. Unwanted incidents in healthcare are the world's third leading cause of death. Objectives: to evaluate the nurses' perception of the patient safety culture in the Emergency and Critical Care Services of the Maternal and Child Department of University hospital; to identify, strengths, vulnerabilities and opportunities for improvement, training needs or intervention in patient safety culture and respective corrective actions aimed at increasing the quality of care provided by nurses in these areas of activity; and to recognize, in this population of nurses, sociodemographic variables potentially associated with their perception of the patient safety culture. Methodology: The data was collected from 84 participants using a quantitative cross-sectional design. Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) software, version IBM SPSS, version 28.0.0.0, was used to analyze the data. Results: were presented using, Descriptive and Inferential statistics. According to the findings, patient safety culture received a 49.4 percent overall positive rating. Although teamwork within units has the highest average positive score of 87.8%, Non-punitive response to errors (27.3%) and Staffing (25.9) were both rated as unsatisfactory and the least developed. Conclusion: According to the results, patient safety culture is vital in boosting hospital overall performance and ensuring patient safety with teamwork within units as this was found to be strength (fortress). The overall average positive score seems weak in this study. Management is hereby encouraged to show greater interest in patient safety issues and make it a top priority in policy making.
- Patient-safety culture among emergency and critical Care Nurses in a Maternal and Child DepartmentPublication . Fuseini, Abdul-Karim Jebuni; Costa, Emília Isabel; Adelaide de Matos, Filomena; Merino-Godoy, Maria-de-los-Angeles; Nave, FilipeIntroduction: The quality of healthcare has multiple dimensions, but the issue of patient safety stands out due to the impact it has on health outcomes, particularly on the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), expressly SDG3. In the services that we propose to study, the patient-safety culture had never been evaluated. Aim: To evaluate nurses’ perceptions of the patient-safety culture in the Emergency and Critical Care Services of the Maternal and Child Department of a University Hospital and to identify strengths, vulnerabilities, and opportunities for improvement. Methods: This an exploratory, cross-sectional study with a quantitative approach, using the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture as an instrument for data collection. The population were all nurses working in the emergency and critical care services of the maternal and child-health department, constituted, at the time of writing, by 184 nurses, with a response rate of 45.7%. Results: Applying the guidelines from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), only teamwork within units had a score greater than 75%. For this reason, it is considered the strength (fortress) in the study. The lowest-rated were non-punitive responses to errors and open communication. Conclusion: The overall average percentage score is below the benchmark of the AHRQ, indicating that issue of patient safety is not considered a high priority, or that the best strategies to make it visible have not yet been found. One of the important implications of this study is the opportunity to carry out a deep reflection, within the organization, that allows the development of a non-punitive work environment that is open to dialogue, and that allows the provision of safe nursing care.