Patient Safety Program and Safety Culture

Young Mee Kim; Se Young Kim; Min Young Kim; Ju Hee Kim; Suk Kyoung Lee; Mi Kyung Jang

doi:10.11111/jkana.2010.16.4.455

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Patient Safety Program and Safety Culture

Young Mee Kim¹, Se Young Kim², Min Young Kim³, Ju Hee Kim⁴, Suk Kyoung Lee⁴, Mi Kyung Jang⁵

Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration 2010;16(4):455-465.
Published online: December 31, 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.11111/jkana.2010.16.4.455

¹Director, Department of Nursing, Seoul National Hospital, Korea.

²Full-time Lecturer, College of Nursing, Eulji University, Korea.

³Researcher, Jeju regional Cancer Center, Korea.

⁴Head nurse, Department of Nursing, Seoul National Hospital, Korea.

⁵Former QA team nurse, Department of Nursing, Seoul National Hospital, Korea.

Correspondence: Kim, Se Young. College of Nursing, Eulji University, 143-5, Yongdu-Dong, Jung-Gu, Daejeon, Korea. Tel: 82-42-259-1718, Fax: 82-42-259-1709, sarakimk@eulji.ac.kr

• Received: October 11, 2010 • Revised: November 30, 2010 • Accepted: December 3, 2010

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Purpose
To determine the impact of the Patient Safety Program on the safety culture of nursing department.
Methods
Patient Safety Program focused on medication safety was launched by QI team and patient safety committee. Patient Safety Program was composed of the establishment of improved reporting system as s way to learn from error, 'Patient Safety Guard' movement, and continuous education for medication safety. With one group pretest-posttest design, nurses' perception of the safety culture were measured with self-administered questionnaire. Subjects were all nurses and managers in nursing department of a tertiary teaching hospital in Seoul. Collected data from survey was statistically analyzed using t-test.
Results
Patient Safety Program had been continued for 20 months in participation of all nurses and managers. Safety culture was improved (pretest=2.84, posttest=2.90, p<.001; 4 point scale).
Conclusions
This study indicates that there has been a statistically significant increase in the nurses' perception of safety culture. These findings suggest that Patient Safety Program had made great contribution toward system wide safety culture in the hospital. To improve safety culture, leadership supports and flexibility to apply tailored interventions to the hospital were required necessarily.
Key Words: Patient Safety; Medication; Safety Culture; Leadership

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The process of patient safety program development & evaluation

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Patient safety program activities

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Homogeneity test of general characteristics between before and after groups

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Mean differences of safety culture in criteria

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Mean differences of safety culture between nurses' and nurse managers'

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Mean differences in the safety culture by career and unit

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Patient Safety Program and Safety Culture

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Patient Safety Program and Safety Culture

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Patient safety program activities

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Homogeneity test of general characteristics between before and after groups

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Mean differences of safety culture in criteria

^*the reverse value

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Mean differences of safety culture between nurses' and nurse managers'

^*the reverse value

Table 5

Mean differences in the safety culture by career and unit

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Table 2 Homogeneity test of general characteristics between before and after groups

Table 3 Mean differences of safety culture in criteria

^*the reverse value

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