Opportunities to strengthen resilience of health care workers regarding patient safety.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic endangered the quality of health care and the safety of patients and health care workers (HCWs). This provided challenges for HCWs' resilience and for hospital management and probably increased risks for patient safety incidents (PSI). HCWs may also have experienced psychological consequences as second victims of PSI, but evidence on this is lacking. Therefore, we mapped HCWs' experiences with PSI during the second wave of COVID-19, the associations of these experiences with the hospital management of patient safety culture and HCWs' interests in receiving further training.

Methods

We obtained data from 193 HCWs working at the COVID-related departments of one large hospital in eastern Slovakia via a questionnaire developed in direct collabora

SUBMITTER: Pacutova V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10588085 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature