Patient Safety Awareness and Emergency Response Ability Perceived by Nursing Homes and Home Visiting Caregivers.
10.5977/jkasne.2018.24.4.347
- Author:
Su Youn KIM
1
;
Soon Ock KIM
Author Information
1. Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Non-Commissioned Officer, Gangdong University, Korea.
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Patient safety;
Caregivers;
Emergencies;
Awareness
- MeSH:
Aged;
Caregivers*;
Data Collection;
Education;
Emergencies*;
House Calls*;
Humans;
Korea;
Nursing Homes*;
Nursing*;
Patient Safety*;
Statistics as Topic;
Workplace
- From:Journal of Korean Academic Society of Nursing Education
2018;24(4):347-357
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to identify patient safety awareness and emergency response ability and affecting factors perceived by nursing homes and home visiting caregivers. METHODS: This study was a descriptive study that conveniently extracts nursing caregivers who care for elderly patients in S and G provinces, Korea. Data collection was done by structural questionnaires from April to May 2018. A total of 204 responses consisting of 103 nursing homes and 101 home visiting caregivers were used for data analysis in SPSS Win 22.0. RESULTS: Patient safety awareness and emergency response ability of nursing homes caregivers with each 4.24±0.50, 74.26±09.57 was each higher than that of the home visiting caregivers with 3.68±0.49, 68.02±12.12 (p < .001). The affecting factors of the patient safety awareness were working place, safety education, and daily average working hours with 12 or more (F = 27.30, p < .001) and that of emergency response ability were number of patients per personnel with 9 or more and emergency situation experience (F=14.00, p < .001). CONCLUSION: These results suggest that it is necessary to develop a safety education program that can share indirectly experience emergency situations that occur on the job site.
