Journal article
Medical-surgical nurse leaders' experiences with safety culture: An inductive qualitative descriptive study
Journal of nursing management, Vol.30(7), pp.2781-2790
10/01/2022
DOI: 10.1111/jonm.13775
PMCID: PMC10087417
PMID: 36048854
Abstract
Aim The aim of this study is to describe safety culture as experienced by medical-surgical nurse leaders. Background Safety culture remains a barrier in safer patient care. Nurse leaders play an important role in creating and supporting a safety culture. Methods We used an inductive qualitative descriptive study using semistructured interviews, document review and observations in a Midwestern community hospital in the United States. Results Results of the study are as follows: making sure nurses are keeping patients safe, making sure nurses have nursing interventions in place, expecting nurses to stop unsafe acts or escalate when they feel uncomfortable, making sure nurses have what they need to provide safe care, organization prioritizes patient safety and making sure nurses are learning and growing emerged as themes describing safety culture. Conclusions Nurse leaders made sure patients were safe by making sure everyone was doing their best to provide safe care. Insufficient time, too many priorities, insufficient resources, poor physician behaviours and lack of respect for their role emerged as barriers to leading a safety culture. Implications for Nursing Management Organizations must remove barriers for nurse leaders to develop and lead a safety culture. Nurse leaders must learn to advocate successfully for safe nursing care and professional work environments.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Medical-surgical nurse leaders' experiences with safety culture: An inductive qualitative descriptive study
- Creators
- Lisa Harton - Loyola University ChicagoLisa Skemp - Loyola University Chicago
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of nursing management, Vol.30(7), pp.2781-2790
- DOI
- 10.1111/jonm.13775
- PMID
- 36048854
- PMCID
- PMC10087417
- NLM abbreviation
- J Nurs Manag
- ISSN
- 0966-0429
- eISSN
- 1365-2834
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Number of pages
- 10
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/01/2022
- Academic Unit
- Nursing
- Record Identifier
- 9984383316302771
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