Nurses' Application of International Patient Safety Goals at Accredited and Non-accredited Hospitals

Abstract

Background: Patient safety is an essential component in the quality of patient care. Itremains a challenge for developing countries. Assessment of application of international patientsafety goals in healthcare organizations is becoming an integral component to improve patients'safety. The study aimed to assess nurses’ application of international patient safety goals ataccredited and non-accredited hospitals. Research design: A comparative design was utilized toconduct this study. Setting: The study was conducted at general intensive care units (ICU) in BenhaUniversity Hospital (non-accredited hospital) and Elaraby International Hospital (accreditedhospital). Sample: All available 112 staff nurses working at the above mentioned settingsdistributed as following 60 staff nurses at Benha University Hospital and 52 staff nurses' at ElarabyInternational Hospital. Tools for data collection: Three tools were used. I: Personal and workcharacteristics of studied staff nurses, II: International patient safety goals’ questionnaire and III:Observational checklist for international patient safety goals practice. Results: 97.8% & 94.3% ofstudied staff nurses had good knowledge and competently applied practice level at accreditedhospital respectively. While, 30.1% had good knowledge and 76.1%of them had incompetentlyapplied practice level at non-accredited hospital about international patient safety goals.Conclusion: There was a positive statistical significance correlation between studied staff nurses'knowledge and practice of international patient safety goals at accredited and non-accreditedhospitals. There was highly statistical significance difference between accredited and nonaccredited hospitals regarding knowledge and practice of international patient safety goals amongstudied staff nurses. Recommendations: Educational programs and training courses should bedeveloped and implemented for staff nurses' about application of international patient safety goalsand how it can be used to improve patient safety at non-accredited hospitals