Patient safety awareness among postgraduate students and nurses in a tertiary health care facility.

Attia Bari,Uzma Jabeen,Iqbal Bano,Ahsan Waheed Rathore

doi:10.12669/pjms.335.13780

Abstract

Objective:To determine the knowledge of patient safety among postgraduate residents (PGR) and nurses in a tertiary care hospital.Methods:This casual comparative study was conducted among the postgraduate residents and nurses working at The Children’s Hospital Lahore in the month of July, August 2017. Both PGR and nurses were asked to complete APSQ-IV questionnaire about patient safety on 7 point Likert scale. Data was analyzed using SPSS version 20 and t-test was used to compare the mean score between two groups. The names of the participants were kept confidential.Results:A total of 150 residents and 150 nurses were included. The scores of both postgraduate residents and nurses were similar in all domains having positively worded questions with insignificant difference in mean score (p=0.141). In the reverse coded questions the nurses showed positive perception with higher mean score as compared to postgraduate residents (p=0.004). The postgraduate residents in the early years of residency had higher mean score in positively worded question as compared to residents who were in last years of training (p=0.006). There was no difference in the mean score of nurses as regard to their years of experience (p=0.733). Medical error disclosure domain was reported lowest by both postgraduate residents and nurses.Conclusion:Both postgraduate residents and nurses showed positive attitude with good knowledge and perception towards patient safety. Lowest rated scores were from error disclosure confidence domain.

Highlights

Patient safety (PS) and quality improvement of health care delivery to the patients are among the highest priorities of health care system.[1,2] Building a safe health care system means designing processes of care to ensure that patients are safe from accidental injury.[3]
The total number of participant included in this study was 300(150 postgraduate residents (PGR) and 150 staff nurses).There was preponderance of female residents 90 (60%) with F:M ratio of 3:2
Most PGR respondents were between 25 and 30 years of age (n=137; 93%) with mean age of 28.19±1.984 and staff nurses having the mean age of 27.31±4.174

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Introduction

Patient safety (PS) and quality improvement of health care delivery to the patients are among the highest priorities of health care system.[1,2] Building a safe health care system means designing processes of care to ensure that patients are safe from accidental injury.[3] PS education and its training for all health care providers including both doctors and nurses is an important required learning at all levels of training. The literature on PS education in medical school and nursing curricula is not properly developed. Undergraduate medical students and postgraduate trainees still must acquire their PS knowledge through informal education in hospitals because formal training of patient safety curricula is. Pak J Med Sci September - October 2017 Vol 33 No 5 www.pjms.com.pk 1059 lacking.[4] A WHO curriculum guide is developed to help medical schools to develop their own patient safety curriculum.[5]

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