The Influences of the Awareness of Patient Safety Culture on Safety Care Activities among Nurse in small-medium Sized General Hospitals

중소병원 간호사의 환자안전인식이 안전간호활동에 미치는 영향

The study was conducted to identify the perception of patient-safety and the level of safety care activity among nurses in small-medium sized general hospitals. Data were collected at three hospitals among 344 nurses on April 2012 and administered questionnaire regarding the perception of patient-safety and safety-care-activity. Data analyzed by using descriptive statistics, inferential statistics was used to determine comparison, correlation and association (Pearson correlation, t-test, ANOVA, Scheffe test, multiple regression). The results revealed that there were significant differences in the level of perception of patient-safety according to the nurses' career, time of work, and work department in their hospitals. And also there were significant differences in the level of safety-care-activity according to the nurses' age, position, marriage, the nurses' career, time of work in their hospitals. Nurses with higher perceived level of patient-safety performed more safety-care-activities. The findings of the study suggests that in order to improve the nurse's perceived level of patient-safety and safety-careactivities, the hospitals need to establish the policies that support patient-safety, improvement the environmental system, proper working atmosphere to ensure appropriate work time, regulation nurse-patient ratio are also required.

본 연구는 중소병원의 간호사의 환자안전인식 및 안전간호활동을 조사하고 안전간호활동에 영향을 미치는 요인들을 분석함으로써 보다 안전한 의료서비스 제공의 기초자료로 삼고자 시행 되었다. 대상자는 2012년부터 4월 1개월 동안 3개의 중소병원 간호사 344명을 대상으로 실시하였다. 미국의 AHRQ에서 개발한 Hospital survey of patient safety culture라는 설문지와 의료기관인증문항 중 안전보장활동을 사용하였다. 자료분석은 SPSS 18.0 통계 패키지를 사용하여 기술통계 t-test 및 ANOVA와 Scheffe 사후 분석, Pearson's correlation coefficents, stepwise multiple regression으로 분석하였다. 환자안전인식 수준은 간호사의 경력, 근무시간, 근무부서에 따라 차이가 있었고, 안전간호활동은 간호사의 나이, 직위, 결혼, 간호사 경력, 근무시간에 따라 차이가 있었으며, 간호사의 안전인식수준이 높을수록 안전간호활동 수준이 높았다. 병원에서 환자안전인식 및 안전간호활동 수준을 개선하기 위해서 환자안전정책 및 근무환경개선제도가 요구된다. 근무조건 개선을 위해서 근무시간, 환자대 간호사의 비율을 정규화하는 정책 등이 요구된다.