THE IMPACT DETERMINATION OF NURSES WORKING ENVIRONMENT ON PATIENT SAFETY OUTCOMES ADMITTED IN HOSPITAL

Abstract

Introduction: Healthcare workers are the people who provides health service to patients. It is responsibility of the healthcare provider to provide care and safety to patients. The patient safety is the safety to provide to patient with preventions of adverse effect and errors associated with health care. Patient safety is an important and ultimate goal of health care providers. Worldwide, the first priority of health care organization is to provide safety to patient. It's essential to provide the better care to patient. Work environment of hospital in the environment where health care providers provide care to patient. This include nurse manager support, proper staffing and availability and use of resources to improve work environment, thus improves patient safety outcomes. Methods: an analytical cross section study design was used in this study. Convenient sampling was used for collection of data. Sample size was 154 nurses from Jinnah Hospital Lahore. PES-NWI (Practice Environment Scale Nurses work Index) questionnaire was used for work environment of nurses in clinical side. PSO (Patient Safety Outcome) scale was used to check the safety of patients. Data analysis was done by putting the data on SPSS software. Results: High rated frequencies and percentages of work environment scale .The participation of nurses in the work place that were found in this study were “mistakes as learning opportunities”(100%), “clinically competent nurses” (92.9%), nursing care is based on the “enough time to discuss patient care problems with other nurses”(85.7%). High rated frequencies and percentages of dependent tool is (100%) have staff often ignore procedures to make work easier in daily practices. However (92.2%) have “Staffs tell someone if they see something that might harm a patient”. Conclusions: The conclusion of this study was to assess the association between NWE (Nurses working environment) and PSO. The nurses play an important roles in patient lives. PO is a part of nurse's everyday life. Results showed that there is positive significant impact NWE on PSO. The results of this study showed that if working environment of the nurses is better, it will improved the patient safety.