Assessment of nursing professionals about the culture of safety: a study in a public hospital in Minas Gerais
Vigil Sanit Debate, Rio de Janeiro, 2023, v.11: e02077 | Published on: 14/04/2023
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https://doi.org/10.22239/2317-269x.02077Keywords:
Organizational Culture, Quality of Health Care, Adverse Event, NursingAbstract
Introduction: The safety culture of an organization is a set of values, attitudes, skills and behaviors that determine the commitment to health and safety management. Diagnosing an institution’s culture is an important strategy to point out opportunities for improvement. Objective: To know the evaluation of nursing professionals in a regional hospital about the patient safety culture. Method: To know the evaluation of nursing professionals in a regional hospital about the patient safety culture. A total of 203 nursing professionals involved in direct patient care participated. Results: The average percentage of positive responses for the 42 items that make up the 12 dimensions was 49%. No dimension can be considered strong, but the dimensions with the highest percentages of positive responses were: “organizational learning - continuous improvement” (68%), “teamwork within units” (65%) and “supervisor/boss expectations and actions promoting safety” (64%). Conclusions: The safety culture of the analyzed hospital proved to be fragile. The results obtained in this research corroborate with the national literature on how fragile and
underdeveloped the patient safety culture in Brazilian hospitals is, still predominating punitive and culpability aspects, where the error is centered on the individual and not on the work process.
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Priscila Portes Almeida, Programa de Pós-graduação em Saúde Ambiental e Saúde do Trabalhador, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Uberlândia, MG, Brasil
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Gerusa Gonçalves Moura, Programa de Pós-graduação em Saúde Ambiental e Saúde do Trabalhador, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Uberlândia, MG, Brasil
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