Patient safety culture in a Dutch pediatric surgical intensive care unit: An evaluation using the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. e310-e316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marten J. Poley ◽  
Cynthia van der Starre ◽  
Ada van den Bos ◽  
Monique van Dijk ◽  
Dick Tibboel
2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (06) ◽  
pp. 496-503
Author(s):  
Mabel Duarte Alves Gomides ◽  
Astrídia Marília de Souza Fontes ◽  
Amanda Oliveira Soares Monteiro Silveira ◽  
Geraldo Sadoyama

Introduction: Patient safety culture has been the reason for great concern for the scientific community due to the high number of failures resulting from the provision of health care. The objective of this study was to evaluate the perception regarding the patient safety culture and their differences between categories, in the professional teams of the adult intensive care unit (ICU). Methodology: This is a cross-sectional descriptive study, with a quantitative approach, to evaluate the patient safety culture developed in the unit adult ICU of a public university hospital. Results: In this survey, 138 employees of the ICU participated, among them: physicians, psychologists, nutritionists, physiotherapists, nurses, nursing technicians, and secretaries. There was a predominance of nursing technicians (76.8%) and work experience time from 5 to ≥ 21 years (62.3%). The overall mean of the safety culture in the ICU was 57.80, and the domains with the best average were stress perception (73.84) and satisfaction at work (72.38) and with the worst mean was the perception of hospital management (42.69). The perception of safety attitudes in the professional category of physicians presented a general average of 61.63, being strengthened to job satisfaction (77,89) and with a higher perception in relation to nurses. Conclusions: The overall ICU average for the patient safety culture was less than 75, which demonstrates a team with weakened safety attitude and, in addition, low perceptions of safety attitudes based on the results of management domains, working conditions and communication failures.


2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 116-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond L. Bonds

Current evidence reveals that surgical patients are more prone to adverse events when compared to any other population in the acute care setting. In a military training hospital, handoff communication between surgical intensive care unit (SICU) nurses, physicians, and anesthesia providers (certified registered nurse anesthetists and anesthesiologists) about patients being prepared for surgery was identified as a problem by an initial inquiry of the staff. This article discusses an evidence-based project (EBP) that utilized a standardized multidisciplinary Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation (SBAR) tool to improve communication, teamwork, and the perception of a patient safety culture between the SICU nurses and physicians and the anesthesia providers in preparation for surgery. The SICU and anesthesia departments received training on the SBAR tool, followed by a 7-week implementation period. Standardized handoff communication utilizing the SBAR method increased by 100%, and documentation of intraoperative antibiotics on the electronic medication administration record increased by 43%. Postimplementation results from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture surpassed database benchmarks for handoffs and transitions, overall perception of patient safety culture, and teamwork across units. This project reinforced current evidence supporting the use of standardized handoff communication.


2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 1073-1085 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernanda Raphael Escobar Gimenes ◽  
Mayara Carvalho Godinho Rigobello Torrieri ◽  
Carmen Silvia Gabriel ◽  
Fernanda Ludmilla Rossi Rocha ◽  
Ana Elisa Bauer de Camargo Silva ◽  
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Author(s):  
Aline Picolotto ◽  
Daniela Barella ◽  
Fernando Roberto Moraes ◽  
Patrícia De Gasperi

Objetivo: identificar a cultura de segurança do paciente dos profissionais da equipe de enfermagem de um Ambulatório Central. Métodos: estudo de abordagem quantitativa do tipo Survey transversal. A coleta dos dados foi realizada no primeiro semestre de 2015, com auxílio do questionário Safety Attitudes Questionnaire. A amostra foi composta por três enfermeiros e cinco técnicos de enfermagem. Resultados: nenhuma das dimensões alcançou a média mínima (75 pontos) para uma cultura de segurança do paciente adequada. Conclusão: percebe-se a necessidade de uma mudança cultural, sendo necessária uma atuação conjunta entre a equipe e gestores para alcançar índices adequados. A cultura de segurança do paciente deve ser constantemente avaliada. Sugere-se a aplicação do SAQ em todas as equipes deste ambulatório, uma vez que o cuidado multidisciplinar proporciona uma assistência de qualidade à comunidade assistida. Descritores: Segurança do paciente; Enfermagem; Instituições de assistência ambulatorial.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yii-Ching Lee ◽  
Pei-Shan Zeng ◽  
Chih-Hsuan Huang ◽  
Hsin-Hung Wu

This study uses the decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory method to identify critical dimensions of the safety attitudes questionnaire in Taiwan in order to improve the patient safety culture from experts’ viewpoints. Teamwork climate, stress recognition, and perceptions of management are three causal dimensions, while safety climate, job satisfaction, and working conditions are receiving dimensions. In practice, improvements on effect-based dimensions might receive little effects when a great amount of efforts have been invested. In contrast, improving a causal dimension not only improves itself but also results in better performance of other dimension(s) directly affected by this particular dimension. Teamwork climate and perceptions of management are found to be the most critical dimensions because they are both causal dimensions and have significant influences on four dimensions apiece. It is worth to note that job satisfaction is the only dimension affected by the other dimensions. In order to effectively enhance the patient safety culture for healthcare organizations, teamwork climate, and perceptions of management should be closely monitored.


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