Factors affecting nurses' perceptions of patient safety

International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 274-283

  Mwachofi, Ari ^a   Walston, Stephen L ^a   Al Omar, Badran A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Information management; Nursing; Organizational culture; Patient care; Quality; Saudi Arabia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MALE; MEDICAL ERROR; NURSE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SAFETY; SAUDI ARABIA; SOCIOECONOMICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MALE; MEDICAL ERRORS; NURSES; PERCEPTION; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; SAUDI ARABIA; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 79955626809     PISSN: 09526862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09526861111125589     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Adamson, B.J. and Kenny, D.T. (1993), "Structural and perceived medical dominance: a study of barriers to nurses' workplace satisfaction" in Australian Journal of Advances Nursing, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 10-19.
2. Adamson, B.J., Kenny, D.T. and Wilson-Barnett, J. (1995), "The impact of perceived medical dominance on the workplace satisfaction of Australian and British nurses" in Journal of Advanced Nursing, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 172-83.
3. Affonso, D.D., Jeffs, L., Doran, D. and Ferguson-Pare, M. (2003), "Patient safety to frame and reconcile nursing issues" in Nursing Leadership, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 69-81.
4. Aiken, L.H., Clarke, S.P., Sloane, D.M., Sochalski, H. and Silber, J.H. (2002), "Hospital nurse staffing and patient mortality, nurse burnout, and job dissatisfaction" in Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 288, pp. 1987-93.
5. Badir, A. and Herdman, E.A. (2008), "Critical care nurses' perceptions of patient safety in Turkey" in Journal of Nursing Care and Quality, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 375-8.
6. Bates, D. and Gawande, A.A. (2003), "Improving safety with information technology" in The New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 348, pp. 2526-34.
7. Begat, I., Ellefsen, B. and Severinsson, E. (2005), "Nurses' satisfaction with their work environment and the outcomes of clinical nursing supervision on nurses' experiences of well-being - a Norwegian study" in Journal of Nursing Management, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 221-30.
8. Berney, B. and Needleman, J. (2006), "Impact of nursing overtime on nurse-sensitive patient outcomes in New York hospitals, 1995-2000" in Policy, Politics and Nursing Practice, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 87-100.
9. Biork, I.T., Samdal, G.B., Hansen, B.S., Torstad, S. and Hamilton, G.A. (2007), "Job satisfaction in a Norwegian population of nurses: a questionnaire survey" in International Journal of Nursing Studies, Vol. 44, No. 5, pp. 747-57.
10. Chang, P.L., Chou, Y.C. and Cheng, F.C. (2007), "Career needs, career development programmes, organizational commitment and turnover intention of nurses in Taiwan" in Journal of Nursing Management, Vol. 15, No. 8, pp. 801-10.
11. Day, G., Minichiello, V. and Madison, J. (2007), "Self-reported perceptions of registered nurses working in Australian hospitals" in Journal of Nursing Management, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 403-13.
12. Hughes, C.M. and Lapane, K.L. (2006), "Nurses' and nursing assistants' perceptions of patient safety culture in nursing homes" in International Journal for Quality in Healthcare, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 281-6.
13. Kim, J., An, K., Kim, M.K. and Yoon, S.H. (2007), "Nurses' perception of error reporting and patient safety culture in Korea" in Western Journal of Nursing Research, Vol. 29, No. 7, pp. 827-44.
14. Krause, V., Pollok, B. and Schnitzler, A. (2009), "Perception in action: perceptual basis of synchronization abilities" in Clinical Neurophysiology, Vol. 120, No. 1, pp. e14-e14.
15. Lu, H., While, A.E. and Barriball, K.L. (2007), "Job satisfaction and its related factors: a questionnaire survey of hospital nurses in mainland China" in International Journal of Nursing Studies, Vol. 44, No. 4, pp. 574-88.
16. Mewshaw, M., White, K. and Walrath, J. (2006), "Medical errors: where are we now?" in Nursing Management, Vol. 37, No. 10, p. 50.
17. Mrayyan, M.T. and Al-Faouri, I. (2008), "Predictors of career commitment and job performance of Jordanian nurses" in Journal of Nursing Management, Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 246-56.
18. Nicklin, W. and McVeety, J.E. (2002), "Canadian nurses' perceptions of patient safety in hospitals" in Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 11-21.
19. Poon, E., Blumenthal, D., Jaggi, T. and Honour, M. (2004), "Overcoming barriers to adopting and implementing computerized physician order entry system in US hospitals" in Health Affairs, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 184-90.
20. Prinz, W. (1997), "Perception and action planning" in European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 129-54.
21. Ramanujam, R., Abrahamson, K. and Anderson, J.G. (2008), "Influence of workplace demands on nurses' perception of patient safety" in Nursing and Health Sciences, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 144-50.
22. Stuenkel, D.L., Nguyen, S. and Cohen, J. (2007), "Nurses' perceptions of their work environment" in Journal of Nursing Care and Quality, Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 337-42.
23. Throckmorton, T. and Etchegaray, J. (2007), "Factors affecting incident reporting by registered nurses: the relationship of perceptions of the environment for reporting errors, knowledge of the Nursing Practice Act, and demographics on intent to report errors" in Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing, Vol. 22, No. 6, pp. 400-12.
24. Tsai, Y. and Tang, T. (2008), "How to improve service quality: internal marketing as a determining factor" in Total Quality Management and Business Excellence, Vol. 19, No. 11, pp. 1117-26.
25. Walston, S. and Chou, A. (2006), "Healthcare restructuring and hierarchical alignment: why do staff and managers perceive change outcomes differently?" in Medical Care, Vol. 44, No. 9, pp. 879-89.
26. Wolf, Z. and Serembus, J. (2004), "Medication errors: ending the blame-game" in Nursing Management, Vol. 35, No. 8, pp. 41-8.