Background: Patient safety is an essential component in the quality of patient care. It remains a challenge for developing countries. Assessment of application of international patient safety goals in healthcare organizations is becoming an integral component to improve patients' safety. The study aimed to assess nurses’ application of international patient safety goals at accredited and non-accredited hospitals. Research design: A comparative design was utilized to conduct this study. Setting: The study was conducted at general intensive care units (ICU) in Benha University Hospital (non-accredited hospital) and Elaraby International Hospital (accredited hospital). Sample: All available 112 staff nurses working at the above mentioned settings distributed as following 60 staff nurses at Benha University Hospital and 52 staff nurses' at Elaraby International Hospital. Tools for data collection: Three tools were used. I: Personal and work characteristics of studied staff nurses, II: International patient safety goals’ questionnaire and III: Observational checklist for international patient safety goals practice. Results: 97.8% & 94.3% of studied staff nurses had good knowledge and competently applied practice level at accredited hospital respectively. While, 30.1% had good knowledge and 76.1%of them had incompetently applied practice level at non-accredited hospital about international patient safety goals. Conclusion: There was a positive statistical significance correlation between studied staff nurses' knowledge and practice of international patient safety goals at accredited and non-accredited hospitals. There was highly statistical significance difference between accredited and nonaccredited hospitals regarding knowledge and practice of international patient safety goals among studied staff nurses. Recommendations: Educational programs and training courses should be developed and implemented for staff nurses' about application of international patient safety goals and how it can be used to improve patient safety at non-accredited hospitals
Gamal Attia, A., Saeed Ahmed, E., & Moustafa Safan, S. (2021). Nurses' Application of International Patient Safety Goals at Accredited and Non-accredited Hospitals. Journal of Nursing Science Benha University, 2(2), 129-142. doi: 10.21608/jnsbu.2021.186435
MLA
Amir Gamal Attia; Ebtesam Saeed Ahmed; Sanaa Moustafa Safan. "Nurses' Application of International Patient Safety Goals at Accredited and Non-accredited Hospitals", Journal of Nursing Science Benha University, 2, 2, 2021, 129-142. doi: 10.21608/jnsbu.2021.186435
HARVARD
Gamal Attia, A., Saeed Ahmed, E., Moustafa Safan, S. (2021). 'Nurses' Application of International Patient Safety Goals at Accredited and Non-accredited Hospitals', Journal of Nursing Science Benha University, 2(2), pp. 129-142. doi: 10.21608/jnsbu.2021.186435
VANCOUVER
Gamal Attia, A., Saeed Ahmed, E., Moustafa Safan, S. Nurses' Application of International Patient Safety Goals at Accredited and Non-accredited Hospitals. Journal of Nursing Science Benha University, 2021; 2(2): 129-142. doi: 10.21608/jnsbu.2021.186435
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