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Investigation of Mental and Physical Health of Nurses Associated with Errors in Clinical Practice

Background: Errors are common among all healthcare settings. The safety of patients is linked directly with nursing errors because nurses stand by them more often than any other healthcare professional. The role of mental and physical health of nurses is of great interest for a good and efficient jo...

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Autores principales: Pappa, Despoina, Koutelekos, Ioannis, Evangelou, Eleni, Dousis, Evangelos, Gerogianni, Georgia, Misouridou, Evdokia, Zartaloudi, Afroditi, Margari, Nikoletta, Toulia, Georgia, Mangoulia, Polyxeni, Ferentinou, Eftychia, Giga, Anna, Dafogianni, Chrysoula
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9498716/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36141415
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10091803
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author Pappa, Despoina
Koutelekos, Ioannis
Evangelou, Eleni
Dousis, Evangelos
Gerogianni, Georgia
Misouridou, Evdokia
Zartaloudi, Afroditi
Margari, Nikoletta
Toulia, Georgia
Mangoulia, Polyxeni
Ferentinou, Eftychia
Giga, Anna
Dafogianni, Chrysoula
author_facet Pappa, Despoina
Koutelekos, Ioannis
Evangelou, Eleni
Dousis, Evangelos
Gerogianni, Georgia
Misouridou, Evdokia
Zartaloudi, Afroditi
Margari, Nikoletta
Toulia, Georgia
Mangoulia, Polyxeni
Ferentinou, Eftychia
Giga, Anna
Dafogianni, Chrysoula
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description Background: Errors are common among all healthcare settings. The safety of patients is linked directly with nursing errors because nurses stand by them more often than any other healthcare professional. The role of mental and physical health of nurses is of great interest for a good and efficient job performance, but also for maintaining good patient care delivery. This study aimed to investigate the association between nurses’ general health and making errors during clinical practice. Methods: A total of 364 nurses completed a specially designed questionnaire anonymously and voluntarily. The sample consisted of nurses with all educational degrees. The questionnaire included demographic data and questions about general health issues, resilience status and nurses’ possible experience with errors within a hospital. Results: 65,8% of the participants stated that at least one error had happened at their workplace, and 49,4% of them reported that the error was caused by them. Somatic symptoms were found to have a positive correlation with making errors (p < 0.001). However, the other aspects of general health, which were anxiety/insomnia, social dysfunction and severe depression, had no statistical significance with adverse events. The most common type of error reported (65,5%) was a medication adverse event. Resilience level was found to be statistically significant (p < 0.001) when correlated with all aspects of general health (anxiety/insomnia, severe depression, somatic symptoms), but not with social dysfunction. Conclusion: Nurses are affected by their somatic symptoms in their daily clinical practice, making them vulnerable to making errors that compromise patient safety. A high resilience level could help them cope with unfavorable situations and prevent them from doing harm to a patient or themselves.
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spelling pubmed-94987162022-09-23 Investigation of Mental and Physical Health of Nurses Associated with Errors in Clinical Practice Pappa, Despoina Koutelekos, Ioannis Evangelou, Eleni Dousis, Evangelos Gerogianni, Georgia Misouridou, Evdokia Zartaloudi, Afroditi Margari, Nikoletta Toulia, Georgia Mangoulia, Polyxeni Ferentinou, Eftychia Giga, Anna Dafogianni, Chrysoula Healthcare (Basel) Article Background: Errors are common among all healthcare settings. The safety of patients is linked directly with nursing errors because nurses stand by them more often than any other healthcare professional. The role of mental and physical health of nurses is of great interest for a good and efficient job performance, but also for maintaining good patient care delivery. This study aimed to investigate the association between nurses’ general health and making errors during clinical practice. Methods: A total of 364 nurses completed a specially designed questionnaire anonymously and voluntarily. The sample consisted of nurses with all educational degrees. The questionnaire included demographic data and questions about general health issues, resilience status and nurses’ possible experience with errors within a hospital. Results: 65,8% of the participants stated that at least one error had happened at their workplace, and 49,4% of them reported that the error was caused by them. Somatic symptoms were found to have a positive correlation with making errors (p < 0.001). However, the other aspects of general health, which were anxiety/insomnia, social dysfunction and severe depression, had no statistical significance with adverse events. The most common type of error reported (65,5%) was a medication adverse event. Resilience level was found to be statistically significant (p < 0.001) when correlated with all aspects of general health (anxiety/insomnia, severe depression, somatic symptoms), but not with social dysfunction. Conclusion: Nurses are affected by their somatic symptoms in their daily clinical practice, making them vulnerable to making errors that compromise patient safety. A high resilience level could help them cope with unfavorable situations and prevent them from doing harm to a patient or themselves. MDPI 2022-09-19 /pmc/articles/PMC9498716/ /pubmed/36141415 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10091803 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/).
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Koutelekos, Ioannis
Evangelou, Eleni
Dousis, Evangelos
Gerogianni, Georgia
Misouridou, Evdokia
Zartaloudi, Afroditi
Margari, Nikoletta
Toulia, Georgia
Mangoulia, Polyxeni
Ferentinou, Eftychia
Giga, Anna
Dafogianni, Chrysoula
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9498716/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36141415
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10091803
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