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- Title
Impact of a patient safety leadership program on head nurses and clinical nurses: a quasi-experimental study.
- Authors
Jianfei Xie; Siqing Ding; Xiaohong Zhang; Xiaolian Li
- Abstract
Objective: to evaluate the impact of a patient safety leadership program on head nurses and clinical nurses in the same nursing unit. Method: a pre-post quasi-experimental study that included 60 head nurses and 240 clinical nurses was conducted. Only the head nurses received patient safety leadership program training for 12 months. Before and after the training, the General Self- Efficacy Scale was completed by the head nurses, and the General Self-Efficacy Scale, the Hospital Leadership Behavior Assessment Scale, the Safety Behavior Scale and the Maslach Burnout Inventory were completed by the clinical nurses. Descriptive and inferential analyses of the data were performed using absolute and relative frequencies, means and standard deviations, and paired t-tests to assess the effect of the training. Results: both the head nurses' and the clinical nurses' self-efficacy increased significantly (p <0.01) after the training. The leadership behavior of the head nurses and the safety behavior of the clinical nurses also improved significantly (p<0.05). We observed a statistically significant reduction in "emotional exhaustion" and an increase in "personal accomplishment" among the clinical nurses (P<0.001). Conclusion: the patient safety leadership program had a positive impact on the head nurses' self-efficacy and leadership behavior and the clinical nurses' self-efficacy, safety behavior and job burnout.
- Subjects
PSYCHOLOGICAL burnout; EVALUATION of human services programs; NURSE administrators; LEADERSHIP; RESEARCH methodology; SATISFACTION; T-test (Statistics); DESCRIPTIVE statistics; NURSE practitioners; EMOTIONS; PATIENT safety
- Publication
Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem (RLAE), 2021, Vol 29, p1
- ISSN
1518-8345
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/1518-8345.4328.3478