Nurses´ perception of patient safety culture in emergency and critical care services of maternal and child health department of an University Hospital

Introduction: The ultimate goal of every health institution is quality health care. Patient safety is one of the characteristics of high-quality healthcare delivery. Patient safety remains a difficulty in health care delivery, despite technical advancements in medicine and health research, as well as sophisticated health facilities. Many patients still inadvertently get hurt in their pursuit of medical and health care. Unwanted incidents in healthcare are the world's third leading cause of death. Objectives: to evaluate the nurses' perception of the patient safety culture in the Emergency and Critical Care Services of the Maternal and Child Department of University hospital; to identify, strengths, vulnerabilities and opportunities for improvement, training needs or intervention in patient safety culture and respective corrective actions aimed at increasing the quality of care provided by nurses in these areas of activity; and to recognize, in this population of nurses, sociodemographic variables potentially associated with their perception of the patient safety culture. Methodology: The data was collected from 84 participants using a quantitative cross-sectional design. Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) software, version IBM SPSS, version 28.0.0.0, was used to analyze the data. Results: were presented using, Descriptive and Inferential statistics. According to the findings, patient safety culture received a 49.4 percent overall positive rating. Although teamwork within units has the highest average positive score of 87.8%, Non-punitive response to errors (27.3%) and Staffing (25.9) were both rated as unsatisfactory and the least developed. Conclusion: According to the results, patient safety culture is vital in boosting hospital overall performance and ensuring patient safety with teamwork within units as this was found to be strength (fortress). The overall average positive score seems weak in this study. Management is hereby encouraged to show greater interest in patient safety issues and make it a top priority in policy making

Patient-safety culture among emergency and critical Care Nurses in a Maternal and Child Department

Introduction: The quality of healthcare has multiple dimensions, but the issue of patient safety stands out due to the impact it has on health outcomes, particularly on the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), expressly SDG3. In the services that we propose to study, the patient-safety culture had never been evaluated. Aim: To evaluate nurses’ perceptions of the patient-safety culture in the Emergency and Critical Care Services of the Maternal and Child Department of a University Hospital and to identify strengths, vulnerabilities, and opportunities for improvement. Methods: This an exploratory, cross-sectional study with a quantitative approach, using the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture as an instrument for data collection. The population were all nurses working in the emergency and critical care services of the maternal and child-health department, constituted, at the time of writing, by 184 nurses, with a response rate of 45.7%. Results: Applying the guidelines from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), only teamwork within units had a score greater than 75%. For this reason, it is considered the strength (fortress) in the study. The lowest-rated were non-punitive responses to errors and open communication. Conclusion: The overall average percentage score is below the benchmark of the AHRQ, indicating that issue of patient safety is not considered a high priority, or that the best strategies to make it visible have not yet been found. One of the important implications of this study is the opportunity to carry out a deep reflection, within the organization, that allows the development of a non-punitive work environment that is open to dialogue, and that allows the provision of safe nursing care.Erasmus Mundus Master Course in Emergency and Critical Care Nursinginfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Leveraging breast cancer screening to promote timely detection, diagnosis and treatment among women in sub-Saharan Africa:a scoping review protocol

Introduction Female breast cancer is now the most often diagnosed cancer in the world. Breast cancer screening aims to reduce mortalities related to cancer, and morbidity associated with advanced stages of the disease, through timely detection in asymptomatic women. This study aims to conduct a comprehensive assessment and evaluation of the evidence on the factors that influence the provision and uptake of breast cancer screening among women in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).Methods and analysis PubMed, Web of Science, EMBASE and the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature including Google Scholar will be searched to identify published studies on barriers and facilitators to breast cancer screening from January 2010 to 2021. Two reviewers will independently assess the quality of all the included studies using the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool version 2018. We envisage that this review will adduce evidence on common barriers and facilitators to breast cancer screening in SSA. Identifying these barriers and facilitators will help guide the initialisation of effective interventions that will improve breast cancer screening uptake among women in SSA. This review will also guide future research in developing, implementing and evaluating appropriate interventions tailored toward increasing breast cancer screening uptake.Ethics and dissemination Ethics approval for this protocol is not required since it does not involve collecting data from human participants. The outcomes of this study will be published in a peer-reviewed journal

Leveraging breast cancer screening to promote timely detection, diagnosis and treatment among women in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review protocol

Introduction Female breast cancer is now the most often diagnosed cancer in the world. Breast cancer screening aims to reduce mortalities related to cancer, and morbidity associated with advanced stages of the disease, through timely detection in asymptomatic women. This study aims to conduct a comprehensive assessment and evaluation of the evidence on the factors that influence the provision and uptake of breast cancer screening among women in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Methods and analysis PubMed, Web of Science, EMBASE and the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature including Google Scholar will be searched to identify published studies on barriers and facilitators to breast cancer screening from January 2010 to 2021. Two reviewers will independently assess the quality of all the included studies using the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool version 2018. We envisage that this review will adduce evidence on common barriers and facilitators to breast cancer screening in SSA. Identifying these barriers and facilitators will help guide the initialisation of effective interventions that will improve breast cancer screening uptake among women in SSA. This review will also guide future research in developing, implementing and evaluating appropriate interventions tailored toward increasing breast cancer screening uptake. Ethics and dissemination Ethics approval for this protocol is not required since it does not involve collecting data from human participants. The outcomes of this study will be published in a peer-reviewed journal.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Leveraging breast cancer screening to promote timely detection, diagnosis and treatment among women in sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review protocol

Introduction: Female breast cancer is now the most often diagnosed cancer in the world. Breast cancer screening aims to reduce mortalities related to cancer, and morbidity associated with advanced stages of the disease, through timely detection in asymptomatic women. This study aims to conduct a comprehensive assessment and evaluation of the evidence on the factors that influence the provision and uptake of breast cancer screening among women in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Methods and analysis: PubMed, Web of Science, EMBASE and the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature including Google Scholar will be searched to identify published studies on barriers and facilitators to breast cancer screening from January 2010 to 2021. Two reviewers will independently assess the quality of all the included studies using the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool version 2018. We envisage that this review will adduce evidence on common barriers and facilitators to breast cancer screening in SSA. Identifying these barriers and facilitators will help guide the initialisation of effective interventions that will improve breast cancer screening uptake among women in SSA. This review will also guide future research in developing, implementing and evaluating appropriate interventions tailored toward increasing breast cancer screening uptake. Ethics and dissemination: Ethics approval for this protocol is not required since it does not involve collecting data from human participants. The outcomes of this study will be published in a peer-reviewed journal