Patient Safety in Nursing Care

Abstract

Background. Patient safetyis an undeniable important aspectin the context of improvingthe quality of the entire health system. Improving patient’s safety should be comprehensive and includetwo dimensions of safety – technical and functional. One source of information aboutthe level of patient’s safety are medical staff, but there is a gap here, which is no central system that would collect, analyze and draw conclusions from a sufficiently large number of problems reported by stakeholders. Objectives. The aim of this study was to evaluate the patient’s safety on the basis of the declaration of nurses. Material and Methods. The study involved 160 professionally active nurses. The study was performed by the authors questionnaire based on the questionnaire “Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture” developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The selection of the sample was based on the availability of respondents. The study was performed in January 2021. More than ¾ of respondents indicated the hospital as a placeof employment. Results. Nearly 40% of respondents said that their boss rarely and very rarely takes into account the suggestions of employees for the improvement of patient’s safety. Over 40% of respondents said that their workplace is often and very often trying to do too many tasks and too fast. Conclusions. It is necessary to create a culture of safety by improving communication between doctors and nurses or line managerand nurses. There is a need for greater involvement of line manager in solving problems reported by nurses in terms of providing safe care to patients (Piel. Zdr. Publ.2021, 5, 1, 33–39).