Investigation in adverse event reporting of nurses and its influencing factors

VernacularTitle:护士对不良事件报告的现状及相关因素探讨
Author: Juan ZHOU ; Li KUANG ; Yingjuan ZHAI
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: Adverse event; Safety culture; Nurse
From: Chinese Journal of Practical Nursing 2009;25(17):6-9
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Objective To investigate the adverse event reporting of nurses and analyze the influenc-ing factors. Methods A sample of 801 nurses were assessed by completing AHRQ Hospital Survey On Patient Safety Culture (Chinese version). Results 82.65% of respondents within hospital didn't reported a single event in the past 12 months. The positive responsive rates for "frequency of event reported"and "nonpunitive response to error"was 29.92% and 29.38% respectively, where higher scores were found in the respondents possessing bachelor degrees and the average score of the respondents from out-patients unit was lower than those from other units. Conclusions The findings illustrate that it is necessary to improve the performance of event reporting of nurses and the influence factors lie in the level of the nurses' educa-tion degree and whether the event reporting system is punitive or not.