Abstract
Nurses’ knowledge regarding patient safety affects nurses’ behaviors in managing drugs related to patient safety. A preliminary study at Sultan Agung Islamic Hospital Semarang showed that nurses’ knowledge regarding patient safety was still low, especially about drug management, including storing, ordering/prescribing and recording, administering, and monitoring drugs. This study aimed to determine the correlation between nurses’ knowledge regarding patient safety and nurses’ behaviors in drug management among nurses in the inpatient units of Sultan Agung Islamic Hospital, Semarang. This research was an observational study with a cross-sectional design. The population was 178 nurses in the inpatient units of the specified hospital with a total sample of 123 respondents. The data were collected using a questionnaire and analyzed using Spearman’s rank correlation test. The results showed a correlation between nurses’ knowledge regarding patient safety and nurses’ behaviors in storing drugs (p=0.001 <ά=0.05), ordering and recording drugs (p=0.000 <ά=0.05), administering drugs (p=0.001 <ά=0.05), and monitoring drugs (p=0.003 <ά=0.05). It is expected that nurses evaluate the drug management implementation in the inpatient units so that patient safety is guaranteed as well as plan and manage their behaviors in managing drugs in the hospital to ensure patient safety.
Highlights
Safety has become a global issue, including for hospitals
There are five important issues related to safety in hospitals, including patient safety, worker or health worker safety, building and equipment safety that affects patient and staff safety, environmental safety that affects environmental pollution, and hospital business safety that is related to the hospital survival.[1]
This study investigated the correlation between nurses’ knowledge regarding patient safety and nurses’ behavior in drug management in the inpatient units of Sultan Agung Islamic Hospital Semarang
Summary
Safety has become a global issue, including for hospitals. There are five important issues related to safety in hospitals, including patient safety, worker or health worker safety, building and equipment safety that affects patient and staff safety, environmental safety (green productivity) that affects environmental pollution, and hospital business safety that is related to the hospital survival.[1] Implementing patient safety in hospitals is expected to minimize errors in handling patients in emergency units, inpatient units, and polyclinics.[4] This target can be achieved by providing excellent services based on nursing codes of ethics to maintain patient safety; all of which should be carried out by health workers.[2,3]. Health services are provided to save patients according to what Hippocrates stated 2,400 years ago, i.e., Primum, non nocere (First, do no harm).
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