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Patient safety climate from the nursing perspective
Vanessa Leal Lira1, Sônia Maria de Araújo Campelo1, Nayra Ferreira Lima Castelo Branco1
1Universidade Estadual do Piauí. Teresina, Piauí, Brazil.
Objective:
To analyze the patient safety climate in intensive care units from the nursing perspective.
Methods:
Cross-sectional study developed with 87 nursing professionals working in three Intensive Care Units of a public hospital for emergency services in Piauí from October to November 2018. The study used a validated Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ). In the inferential analysis, the Student's t-test, Mann-Whitney, and Kruskal-Wallis were performed.
Results:
The total SAQ score obtained a mean of 68.57. In analyzing the scores obtained for each domain in the general SAQ, the Job Satisfaction, and Teamwork Climate domains were those that obtained the highest scores, and the lowest score was for the Perception of Hospital Management domain.
Conclusion:
The safety attitudes assessed from the perspective of the nursing team proved to be unfavorable.
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