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Abstract
Teamwork skills are essential for providing quality health care. When all clinical and nonclinical staff collaborates effectively, health care teams can improve patient outcomes, improve efficiency and increase patient satisfaction. Patient safety efforts are now a central component of strategies to improve the quality of care for all patients and reduce medical errors. Despite, patient safety has great attention, medical errors continue to occur in hospitals, and patients are frequently harmed. The concept of patient safety is closely coupled with quality in health care and has been defined by the National Patient Safety. Staff nurses’ teamwork and effective communication are pivotal in patient safety practices. Thus, it is essential to investigate the perceived teamwork to improve patient safety among staff nurses.
The aim of the study was to assess teamwork and its relation to patient safety culture as perceived by staff nurses. The study was conducted at the Geriatric hospital at Ain Shams Hospitals.
A Cross-sectional analytical research design on available 94 staff nurse during the time of the study which conducted at Geriatric hospital, Ain shams hospitals. The study subjects were recruited from the study settings by using simple random technique.
A self-administered questionnaire include two tools (teamwork perception and patient safety culture) was used to collect study data after examining its validity and reliability.
The main study findings were as the following:
Staff nurses’ age slightly two-thirds of the studied staff nurses (62.8%) were less than 30 years old, as regards to gender, about half of them (51.1%) were male, majority of them (57.4%) were unmarried.
About two-thirds (67.8%) of staff nurses were diploma nurses and slightly two-thirds (62.8%)of them had less than 10 years of experience, the majority (81.9%) of staff nurses had insufficient income and the majority (72.3%) of staff nurses were urban residence.
Staff nurses work was two thirds (66%) in critical units and (94.7%) the highest percentage of them had previous training.
The majority (56.4%) of staff nurses had an agreement with mutual support among all teamwork dimensions
The highest percentage of staff nurses (74.5%) shows total patient safety grade was high.
Significantly there were statistically relations between patient safety culture and total teamwork perception dimensions except leadership and team identity (p< 0.05).
A significant high positive correlations between staff nurses’ scores of total teamwork perception dimensions and all patient safety culture dimensions except hospital (r=0.798).
Staff nurses’ income was statistically significant independent positive predicator of total perceived teamwork.
Urban residence considered a significant independent negative predicator of total perceived teamwork.
Teamwork perception was a statistically significant independent positive predicator for total patient safety culture dimensions.
Female gender considered a significant independent negative predicator for total patient safety culture dimensions.
Statistically significant independent positive predicators of staff nurses’ score of overall patient safety grade were PS courses, rotating shift and their ages.
The total perceived teamwork score was the most influential on overall patient safety grade.
In conclusion, Staff nurses’ teamwork perception and patient safety culture are positively correlated, and teamwork perception is a significant positive predictor of patient safety culture.
The study recommends that Assessing nursing workload can improve work environment and job condition to reduce stress at work and conflicts. In addition to patient safety competencies supposed to be incorporated into the nursing recruitment training programs. As well the leadership’s commitment to patient safety goals is essential. Finally Continuous education programs are crucial in helping update knowledge, and practice and improving staff nurses’ attitudes regarding patient safety. Further studies assessing hospital work environment and its influence on staff nurse competencies related to patient safety culture.