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Factors Relating to a Safety Culture in the University Perinatal Center: The Nurses’ and Midwives’ Perspective
Background: According to The Joint Commission, a culture of safety is a key component for achieving sustainable and safe health care services, and hospitals must measure and monitor this achievement. Promoting a patient safety culture in health services optimally includes midwifery and nursing. The...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9408773/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36011487 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19169845 |
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author | Ribelienė, Janina Macijauskienė, Jūratė Tamelienė, Rasa Kudrevičienė, Aušrelė Nedzelskienė, Irena Blaževičienė, Aurelija |
author_facet | Ribelienė, Janina Macijauskienė, Jūratė Tamelienė, Rasa Kudrevičienė, Aušrelė Nedzelskienė, Irena Blaževičienė, Aurelija |
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description | Background: According to The Joint Commission, a culture of safety is a key component for achieving sustainable and safe health care services, and hospitals must measure and monitor this achievement. Promoting a patient safety culture in health services optimally includes midwifery and nursing. The first aim of this study is to assess the University Perinatal Center’s staff members’ perceptions of safety culture. A second aim is to identify how the perceptions of safety culture actors are related to the socio-demographic characteristic of the respondents. Methods: A descriptive, cross-sectional, correlational design was applied in this study. Registered nurses and midwives were recruited from the University Perinatal Center in Lithuania (N = 233). Safety culture was measured by the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ). Results: The mean scores of the responses on the 6 factors of the SAQ ranged from 3.18 (0.46) (teamwork climate) to 3.79 (0.55) (job satisfaction) points. The percentage of positive responses to the SAQ (4 or 5 points on the Likert scale) ranged from 43.2% to 69.0%. The lowest percentage of the respondents provided positive responses to the questions on perception of management and teamwork climate, while the highest percentage of the respondents provided positive responses to the questions on job satisfaction. Perception of management positively correlated with safety climate (r = 0.45, p < 0.01) and working conditions (r = 0.307, p < 0.01). Safety climate positively correlated with job satisfaction (r = 0.397, p < 0.01) and working conditions (r = 0.307, p < 0.01). Job satisfaction positively correlated with working conditions (r = 0.439, p < 0.01). Conclusion: Evaluating the opinions of the safety climate among nurses and midwives who work at the University Perinatal Center showed that teamwork climate and perception of management are weak factors. Therefore, stakeholders should organize more training about patient safety and factors that affect patient safety. |
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spelling | pubmed-94087732022-08-26 Factors Relating to a Safety Culture in the University Perinatal Center: The Nurses’ and Midwives’ Perspective Ribelienė, Janina Macijauskienė, Jūratė Tamelienė, Rasa Kudrevičienė, Aušrelė Nedzelskienė, Irena Blaževičienė, Aurelija Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Background: According to The Joint Commission, a culture of safety is a key component for achieving sustainable and safe health care services, and hospitals must measure and monitor this achievement. Promoting a patient safety culture in health services optimally includes midwifery and nursing. The first aim of this study is to assess the University Perinatal Center’s staff members’ perceptions of safety culture. A second aim is to identify how the perceptions of safety culture actors are related to the socio-demographic characteristic of the respondents. Methods: A descriptive, cross-sectional, correlational design was applied in this study. Registered nurses and midwives were recruited from the University Perinatal Center in Lithuania (N = 233). Safety culture was measured by the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ). Results: The mean scores of the responses on the 6 factors of the SAQ ranged from 3.18 (0.46) (teamwork climate) to 3.79 (0.55) (job satisfaction) points. The percentage of positive responses to the SAQ (4 or 5 points on the Likert scale) ranged from 43.2% to 69.0%. The lowest percentage of the respondents provided positive responses to the questions on perception of management and teamwork climate, while the highest percentage of the respondents provided positive responses to the questions on job satisfaction. Perception of management positively correlated with safety climate (r = 0.45, p < 0.01) and working conditions (r = 0.307, p < 0.01). Safety climate positively correlated with job satisfaction (r = 0.397, p < 0.01) and working conditions (r = 0.307, p < 0.01). Job satisfaction positively correlated with working conditions (r = 0.439, p < 0.01). Conclusion: Evaluating the opinions of the safety climate among nurses and midwives who work at the University Perinatal Center showed that teamwork climate and perception of management are weak factors. Therefore, stakeholders should organize more training about patient safety and factors that affect patient safety. MDPI 2022-08-10 /pmc/articles/PMC9408773/ /pubmed/36011487 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19169845 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Ribelienė, Janina Macijauskienė, Jūratė Tamelienė, Rasa Kudrevičienė, Aušrelė Nedzelskienė, Irena Blaževičienė, Aurelija Factors Relating to a Safety Culture in the University Perinatal Center: The Nurses’ and Midwives’ Perspective |
title | Factors Relating to a Safety Culture in the University Perinatal Center: The Nurses’ and Midwives’ Perspective |
title_full | Factors Relating to a Safety Culture in the University Perinatal Center: The Nurses’ and Midwives’ Perspective |
title_fullStr | Factors Relating to a Safety Culture in the University Perinatal Center: The Nurses’ and Midwives’ Perspective |
title_full_unstemmed | Factors Relating to a Safety Culture in the University Perinatal Center: The Nurses’ and Midwives’ Perspective |
title_short | Factors Relating to a Safety Culture in the University Perinatal Center: The Nurses’ and Midwives’ Perspective |
title_sort | factors relating to a safety culture in the university perinatal center: the nurses’ and midwives’ perspective |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9408773/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36011487 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19169845 |
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