Purpose This study aimed to examine the mediating role of nursing professionalism in the relationship between critical thinking disposition and medication safety competency among peri-anesthesia nurses. Methods Data were collected from 128 peri-anesthesia nurses with at least six months of experience in recovery-related departments across medical institutions nationwide. The analysis was conducted using IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows, version 24.0, including descriptive statistics, t-tests, one-way ANOVA, Scheffé tests, Pearson’s correlation coefficients, stepwise multiple regression, and the SPSS Process Macro. Results Medication safety competency showed a significant positive correlation with critical thinking disposition (r=.79, p<.001) and nursing professionalism (r=.80, p<.001).
Similarly, critical thinking disposition was positively correlated with nursing professionalism (r=.78, p<.001). Nursing professionalism was identified as a partial mediator in the relationship between critical thinking disposition and medication safety competency, with a 95% confidence interval of .11 to .63. Conclusion Critical thinking disposition significantly enhances medication safety competency, with nursing professionalism serving as a partial mediator.
These findings underscore the importance of developing targeted educational programs to foster critical thinking skills and nursing professionalism, ultimately improving medication safety competency among peri-anesthesia nurses.
Purpose The purpose of this study was to investigate the influences of hospital nurse's organizational communication satisfaction and safety climate on their medication safety competence.
Methods: Data were collected from 131 hospital nurses who administer medications at hospitals in the metropolitan areas. Data were analyzed utilizing descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Scheffe’s test, Pearson’s correlation coefficients, and hierarchical multiple regression.
Results: Medication safety competence was significantly relations to organizational communication satisfaction (r＝.52, p＜.001) and safety climate (r＝.54, p＜.001). Organizational communication satisfaction, safety climate, age 31~35 years and over 36 year, clinical experience 5~10 years and 10 or more years and surgical department influenced on medication safety competence. These factors explained 47.0% of clinical nurse's medication safety competence (p＜.001).
Conclusion: Organizational communication satisfaction and safety climate had effects on nurses’ medication safety competence. It is needed to formulate strategies to make an organizational climate where the level of communication within the hospital improve and safety is considered a top priority to increase the medication safety competence of hospital nurses.
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