Patient Safety Related Implementations of Nurses Working in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Related Factors

INTRODUCTION: The study was carried out in order to determine the patient safety related implementations of nurses working in neonatal intensive care.
METHODS: This descriptive study was carried out in Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU) in six hospitals in Konya city center between April and May 2012. 96 nurses working in the intensive care unit participated in the survey. Newborn Patient Safety Survey Form was used in the study. The analysis of the data was done by number, percentage, Kruskall-Wallis, Man-Whitney U and Independent t tests.
RESULTS: It was seen that nurses scored most in interventions regarding falling down among the fields of patient safety implementations (92,42±6,36). A meaningful difference was found between NICU nurses' state of education and patient safety intervention regarding medication score average (p<0,05); nurses' working years and patient safety intervention regarding identity implementations score average (p<0,05).
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: It was determined that nurses implemented interventions regarding falling down most among patient safety implementations. It was seen that patient safety implementations of nurses were related to state of education, working year, the number of patients cared daily, and receiving patient safety training.