Exploratory study of staff perceptions of shift safety in the critical care unit and routinely available data on workforce, patient and organisational factors.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To explore bedside professional reported (BPR) perceptions of safety in intensive care staff and the relationships between BPR safety, staffing, patient and work environment characteristics.

Design

An exploratory study of self-recorded staff perceptions of shift safety and routinely collected data.

Setting

A large teaching hospital comprising 70 critical care beds.

Participants

All clinical staff working in adult critical care.

Interventions

Staff recorded whether their shift felt 'safe, unsafe or very unsafe' for 29 consecutive days. We explored these perceptions and relationships between them and routine data on staffing, patient and environmental characteristics.

Outcome measures

Relationships between BPR safety and staffing, patient

SUBMITTER: Leon-Villapalos C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7304836 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature