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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2012.13.1.117

Safety Accident Occurrence to Perceptions of Patient Safety Culture of Hospital Nurses  

Lee, Young-Mee (Dept. of Nursing, Kangwon National University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.13, no.1, 2012 , pp. 117-124 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study is aimed to investigate the relationship among safety accident and perception of patient safety culture, to provide the basic data for building the patient safety culture of hospital nurses. The self-administered questionnaires were given to 129 nurses employed in hospital during the period from November 10th to 15th, 2011. The safety accident occurrence of patient was statistically significant difference according to safety education of nurse and job satisfaction of nurses. As a results, nurses' perception to the patient safety culture of hospital shows on the average score($3.46{\pm}0.3$). Among three categories, patient safety culture in a ward, and patient safety culture within hospital and safety awareness in a ward show respectively on the average score $3.59{\pm}0.3$, $3.41{\pm}0.5$, $3.41{\pm}0.4$. The score of level of patient safety culture of hospital nurses was statistically significant difference according to marital status, safety education, occupational satisfaction and health status. In correlation among safety accident occurrence of patient and safety education of nurse, patient safety culture in a ward, patient safety culture within hospital and safety awareness in a ward showed positive relationship. The results of this study indicate that education program are needed to prevent safety accident occurrence of patient, and to build the patient safety culture of hospital nurses, and to increase the safety education and occupational satisfaction, and to improve the nurses' health status.
Keywords
Safety accident occurrence; Perceptions of Patient Safety Culture; Hospital Nurses;
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