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Background: Patient safety is an essential component in the quality of patient care. It
remains a challenge for developing countries. Assessment of application of international patient
safety goals in healthcare organizations is becoming an integral component to improve patients'
safety. The study aimed to assess nurses' application of international patient safety goals at
accredited and non-accredited hospitals. Research design: A comparative design was utilized to
conduct this study. Setting: The study was conducted at general intensive care units (ICU) in Benha
University Hospital (non-accredited hospital) and Elaraby International Hospital (accredited
hospital). Sample: All available 112 staff nurses working at the above mentioned settings
distributed as following 60 staff nurses at Benha University Hospital and 52 staff nurses' at Elaraby
International Hospital. Tools for data collection: Three tools were used. I: Personal and work
characteristics of studied staff nurses, II: International patient safety goals' questionnaire and III:
Observational checklist for international patient safety goals practice. Results: 97.8% & 94.3% of
studied staff nurses had good knowledge and competently applied practice level at accredited
hospital respectively. While, 30.1% had good knowledge and 76.1%of them had incompetently
applied practice level at non-accredited hospital about international patient safety goals.
Conclusion: There was a positive statistical significance correlation between studied staff nurses'
knowledge and practice of international patient safety goals at accredited and non-accredited
hospitals. There was highly statistical significance difference between accredited and nonaccredited hospitals regarding knowledge and practice of international patient safety goals among
studied staff nurses. Recommendations: Educational programs and training courses should be
developed and implemented for staff nurses' about application of international patient safety goals
and how it can be used to improve patient safety at non-accredited hospitals
DOI
10.21608/jnsbu.2021.186435
Keywords
Key words: Accredited, International patient safety Goals, nurses’ application and non-accredited
Authors
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Nursing Administration, Faculty of Nursing, Benha University, Egypt
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Nursing Administration, Faculty of Nursing, Benha University, Egypt
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Nursing Administration, Faculty of Nursing, Menoufia University, Egypt
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Scientific peer reviewed journal
Publication Title
Journal of Nursing Science Benha University
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https://jnsbu.journals.ekb.eg/
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Nurses' Application of International Patient Safety Goals at Accredited and Non-accredited Hospitals