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Revista Cubana de Enfermería

versão On-line ISSN 1561-2961

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BARBOSA, Maria Helena et al. Perception of Brazilian nurses on the patient safety. Rev Cubana Enfermer [online]. 2018, vol.34, n.4  Epub 01-Dez-2018. ISSN 1561-2961.

Introduction:

The importance of a safe environment is essential both for those who provide the service and for those who use it. To establish a better security environment, it is necessary that an individual or a group of people set values, skills and attitudes to generate this safe environment, reducing to minimum acceptable the risk of unnecessary damages during health care.

Objective:

To assess the security environment of the patient according to the perception of nursing team professionals of large hospitals.

Methods:

This is a cross-sectional, exploratory and analytic study with a quantitative data approach, conducted with 582 nursing professionals. A Safety Attitudes Questionnaire was used, validated for Brazilian Portuguese.

Results:

It was observed that the average total score obtained by the instrument was 62.29 (S=13.71), with a maximum of 93.29 and a minimum of 10.98. Among the domains, D3 that relates the job satisfaction had the highest average, being 80.22 (S=18.54). The lowest average observed between the domains was the one that relates the perception of the unity of and hospital management, D5, with a mean of 53.12 (S=20.01). Only one of the six domains analyzed by the instrument obtained a score above the ideal minimum of 75 points.

Conclusion:

It was generally observed a low perception of patient’s safety environment, since in the analysis of the general score and domains, the scores were lower than recommended in the literature, except for the domain that evaluates the job satisfaction.

Palavras-chave : Safety management; patient safety; nursing.

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