Assessment of the safety climate at University Hospitals in the Slovak Republic the nurses

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/acm-2020-0004" target="_blank" >10.2478/acm-2020-0004</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Assessment of the safety climate at University Hospitals in the Slovak Republic the nurses

Original language description

Introduction: Safety climate consists of individual dimensions that might be assessed using specific instruments,e.g., the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSOPS). Establishing the safety climate in healthcare facilities leads to improvements in patient safety. Aim: To assess the safety climate at university hospitals in the Slovak Republic from the nurses´ perspective and to determine the relationship between organisational variables and the particular components of the safety climate. Methods: The study has a cross-sectional design. Data were collected using the HSOPS between December 2017 and July 2018. Two university hospitals participated in the study and overall 280 respondents were included. Respondents were recruited through the purposive sampling method. Data were analysed by descriptive and inductive statistics in the statistical programme SPSS 25.0. Results: Results indicate that in the university hospitals there is a low-level of safety climate. The significant relationship was proved between organisational variables such as the experience in the current position, leaving intention, overtime, perception of staff adequacy, unit type, nurse-patient ratio, and the particular components of the safety climate. Conclusion: Our findings may help hospital management to raise the awareness of the safety climate and to gain a sophisticated overview of the particular components of the safety climate. Adding new organisational variables may help to assess the safety climate from multiple perspectives and, thus, identify areas contributing to patient safety.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30307 - Nursing

Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Acta Medica Martiniana

ISSN

1335-8421

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

20

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

27-38

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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