The Relationship between Patient Safety Culture and Adherence to Control Covid-19 Virus Standard Precaution at Mit Ghamr Nephrology and Urology Hospital

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Nursing Specialist, Mit Ghamr Nephrology and Urology Hospital,

2 Professor of Nursing Administration, Faculty of Nursing - Mansoura University

3 Lecturer of Nursing Administration, Faculty of Nursing - Mansoura University

Abstract

Background: With the novel coronavirus pandemic, the impact on the healthcare system and workers cannot be
overlooked. health care workers (HCWs) are under chronic emotional stress, affected by burnout, moral distress and
interpersonal issues with peers or supervisors during the pandemic. All of these can lead to lower levels of patient safety.
Aim: the study aimed at evaluating the relationship between patient safety culture and adherence control to Covid-19
Virus standard precaution (SP) at Mit Ghamr Nephrology and Urology Hospital. Methods: A descriptive correlational
research design was utilized. The study was conducted on 70 nursing staff working at Mit Ghamr Nephrology and
Urology Hospital by using two tools as: Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture Questionnaire (HSOPSCQ) aimed to
examine the nurse's perception of the prevailing safety culture or 'safety climate' in the hospital, and the Control Covid-
19 Observation Checklist aimed to assess the nurses and the health-care facility’ compliances with SP measures.
Results: the results indicated that there was a positive response rate for the nurse perception of patient safety culture
results in the hospital study. As well, most of the studied nurses adhered to infection prevention and control precautions,
and healthcare facility highly complied with the SPs. Recommendations: identifying potential new patient safety
domains and events that might have occurred during the pandemic. Anticipating new patient safety issues and adverse
events during crises might help in preventing them in future crisis situations.

Keywords

Files

Share

How to cite

Statistics