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A Study on Knowledge, Attitude, toward Patient Safety and Patient Safety Care Activities among Long-Term Care Hospitals' Nursing Assistants

요양병원 간호보조인력의 환자안전에 대한 지식, 태도 및 환자 안전활동

  • Received : 2018.07.06
  • Accepted : 2018.10.05
  • Published : 2018.10.31

Abstract

This study investigated knowledge and attitudes of long-term care hospital nursing assistants such as nursing aides and direct care workers toward patient safety and their safety care activities. This was a descriptive study that attempted to enhance the competence of nursing assistants' patient safety management, and the data were used to develop a training program for nursing assistants. A total of 230 nursing assistants working at six hospitals whose wards were over 200 participated and were assessed with a rating 1 or 2 in 2013 in B city. Data were collected using questionnaires from March 2 to March 26 in 2017. The collected data were analyzed by the SPSS/WIN 20.0 program using number, percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test, ANOVA, $Scheff{\acute{e}}$ test, correlation coefficient, and multiple regression. In conclusion, the findings show that patient safety care activities were better performed by nursing aides than direct care workers. Higher education and a higher number of patient safety training programs and patient safety care activities were frequent. In addition, nursing assistants' knowledge of patient safety affected attitudes toward patient safety, and attitudes affected patient safety care activities. Therefore, an actual regular training program for patient safety should be executed over five times a year to improve patient safety perception. Furthermore, a hospital system including adequate working time needs to be improved. Based on the results of the study, patient safety in long-term care hospitals should be improved, and this study could be utilized as basic data to develop a training course for improvement of knowledge and attitudes of nursing assistants toward patient safety.

본 연구에서는 요양병원 간호보조인력 즉 간호조무사, 요양보호사의 환자안전에 대한 지식, 태도 및 환자안전활동 정도를 파악하여, 요양병원 환자안전관리 역량증진 및 간호보조인력을 위한 교육과정 개발의 기초자료로 활용하고자 시도된 서술적 조사연구이다. 자료 수집은 2017년 3월 2일부터 3월 26일까지 B광역시 소재 요양병원 중 2013년 적정성평가 2등급 이상, 200병상 이상의 6곳에서 근무하는 간호보조인력 230명을 대상으로 구조화된 설문지를 이용하여 수집하였다. 수집된 자료는 SPSS/WIN 20.0 프로그램을 이용하여 실수와 백분율, 평균, 표준편차, t-test, ANOVA, $Scheff{\acute{e}}$ test, 상관관계분석 및 다중회귀분석을 실시하였다. 본 연구의 결과, 요양보호사보다 간호조무사가, 고학력일수록, 환자안전교육을 받은 횟수가 많을수록 환자안전활동 정도가 높은 것으로 나타났다. 또한 환자안전에 대한 지식이 태도에 영향을 미치고, 태도는 환자안전활동에 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 바람직한 태도 개선을 위해 직종별 차별화된 교육과 연간 5회 이상의 실제적이고 지속적인 교육 프로그램의 제공이 필요하고 적절한 근무시간 등의 제도개선 또한 필요할 것으로 사료된다. 이 결과를 토대로 요양병원 간호보조인력의 환자안전관리 역량증진 및 환자안전에 대한 지식 향상과 바람직한 태도개선을 위한 교육과정 개발의 기초 자료로 활용할 수 있을 것이다.

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