Patient Safety In Nursing Care
Joanna Jasińska, Katarzyna Barna
Background: Patient safety is an undeniable important aspect in the context of improving the quality
of the entire health system. Improving patient’s safety should be comprehensive and include two
dimensions of safety – technical and functional. One source of information about the level of patient’s
safety are medical staff, but there is a gap here, which is no central system that would collect, analyze and
draw conclusions from a sufficiently large number of problems reported by stakeholders.
Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the patient’s safety on the basis of the declaration of
nurses.
Material and Methods: The study involved 160 professionally active nurses. The study was performed
by the authors questionnaire based on the questionnaire “Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture”
developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The selection of the sample was based on
the availability of respondents. The study was performed in January 2021. More than ¾ of respondents
indicated the hospital as a place of employment.
Results: Nearly 40% of respondents said that their boss rarely and very rarely takes into account the
suggestions of employees for the improvement of patient’s safety. Over 40% of respondents said that
their workplace is often and very often trying to do too many tasks and too fast.
Conclusions: It is necessary to create a culture of safety by improving communication between doctors
and nurses or line manager and nurses. There is a need for greater involvement of line manager in
solving problems reported by nurses in terms of providing safe care to patients (Piel. Zdr. Publ. 2021,
5, 1, 33–39).
