Nursing Professional Practice Environment and its Influence on Safety Climate during Covid 19 Variants

مؤسسة الشرق الأوسط للنشر العلمي

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الإصدار الثالث عشر: 6 ديسمبر 2021
من مجلة الشرق الأوسط للنشر العلمي

Nursing Professional Practice Environment and its Influence on Safety Climate during Covid 19 Variants

Rasha Ali Abd Elhamed & Sher Mohamed Aly
Abstract

Background: Safety climate is the requirement of the current changeable and very stressful environment, requiring quick decision-making and action. Aims: The study aimed to investigate the nursing professional practice environment and its influence on safety climate during covid 19 variants. Subjects and methods: A descriptive correlational design was used of 300 staff nurses, at Ain Shams University Hospitals. A self-administered questionnaire with Practice Environment scale, and nurses’ characteristics as was provided, as well as a section for safety attitudes questionnaire to measure safety climate was used to collect data. Results. The current study results showed statistically significant correlation between overall  score of professional nursing practice environment and overall  score of safety climate among staff nurses (P < 0.05 and P < 0.05, respectively).Regarding safety climate dimensions , perception quality of team work dimension  (34.24),and  safety climate dimension (22.83) were highest mean score .while, professional nurse practice environments were regarding nurse manger ability, leadership, and support of nurses (20.25),and nursing foundations for quality of care (19.45).Conclusion and recommendations: The study concluded that environments favorable to these professionals’ nursing practice result in perceived a better staff nurses attitudes favorable to safety climate. The present study can be used as a reference. The study recommends that hospital management and staff nurses should foster to develop strategy to improve nurse practice environment to response effectively during crisis and maintain safety climate.

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