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- Title
Measuring Nurses' Compliance with Safety Precautions for Patients in Intensive Care Units.
- Authors
Suliman, Mohammad
- Abstract
Aims: To investigate nurses' compliance with safety precautions in relation to patients in Intensive Care Units (ICUs). In addition, the study also aimed to measure the unit and hospital characteristics that determine the implementation of safety precautions for patients admitted to ICUs in Jordan. Methodology: A sample of 184 patients who were admitted to ICUs were observed using a 17-item safety checklist that measured nurses' implementation of safety precautions such as raising the side rail, elevating the head of the bed, and applying elastic stockings. Results: Nurses in our study demonstrated low compliance with some ICU safety precautions such as changing patient's position every two hours (40.2% ), fixing the indwelling catheter to the bed (46.2% ), and applying elastic stockings for immobilized patients (1.1% ). In addition, factors such as admittance to the university hospital, being in a small ICU, and in a unit with a higher nurse-patient ratio were associated with higher nurses' compliance with ICU safety precautions. Conclusion: This study demonstrated that there is some lack in applying safety precautions for patients admitted to the ICUs in Jordan. In addition, the study identified hospital and unit characteristics that are associated with higher compliance with safety precautions. Applying more educational programs and implementing more policies and maintaining more supervision are highly recommended.
- Subjects
JORDAN; ACADEMIC medical centers; COMPRESSION stockings; LEGAL compliance; LENGTH of stay in hospitals; INTENSIVE care nursing; INTENSIVE care units; SCIENTIFIC observation; PATIENT positioning; PATIENT safety; PROFESSIONS; PUBLIC hospitals; CATHETERS; MULTIPLE regression analysis; CROSS-sectional method; NURSE-patient ratio; DATA analysis software; INDEPENDENT variables; SAFETY
- Publication
International Journal of Nursing Education, 2018, Vol 10, Issue 4, p84
- ISSN
0974-9349
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5958/0974-9357.2018.00108.3