Knowledge, attitude, practice and associated factors towards patient safety among nurses working at Asella Referral and Teaching Hospital, Ethiopia: A cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patient safety has been identified as a global priority area. It is one of the most health care challenges. There is a rising number of patients' mortality in hospitals each year because of lapses in patient safety practice. Therefore, the purpose of the present study was to assess knowledge, attitude, practice, and associated factors towards patient safety among nurses working at Asella Referral and Teaching Hospital.

Methods

Institution based cross-sectional study was conducted on 172 nurses working at Asella Referral and Teaching Hospital, Arsi Zone, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia. The data were collected from nurses from December 28, 2020 to January 05, 2021 by using a pretested questionnaire. The data were entered into Epi-Data version 4.2.0.0 and analyzed u

SUBMITTER: Wake AD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8248719 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature