• Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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• v.52 no.4
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• pp.378-390
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• 2022

Purpose: This study developed an in-service training program for patient safety and aimed to evaluate the impact of the program on nurses in the operating room (OR). Methods: A pretest-posttest self-controlled survey was conducted on OR nurses from May 6 to June 14, 2020. An in-service training program for patient safety was developed on the basis of the knowledge-attitude-practice (KAP) theory through various teaching methods. The levels of safety attitude, cognition, and attitudes toward the adverse event reporting of nurses were compared to evaluate the effect of the program. Nurses who attended the training were surveyed one week before the training (pretest) and two weeks after the training (posttest). Results: A total of 84 nurses participated in the study. After the training, the scores of safety attitude, cognition, and attitudes toward adverse event reporting of nurses showed a significant increase relative to the scores before the training (p < .001). The effects of safety training on the total score and the dimensions of safety attitude, cognition, and attitudes toward nurses' adverse event reporting were above the moderate level. Conclusion: The proposed patient safety training program based on KAP theory improves the safety attitude of OR nurses. Further studies are required to develop an interprofessional patient safety training program. In addition to strength training, hospital managers need to focus on the aspects of workflow, management system, department culture, and other means to promote safety culture.

• Journal of Korean Clinical Nursing Research
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.164-174
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• 2020

Purpose: This study was to investigate the relationships among patient safety culture, safety competence and safety nursing activity among nurses in anesthetic and recovery rooms, and to identify the factors contributing to safety nursing activity. Methods: A descriptive correlational study was conducted. Participants were 156 nurses from 13 hospitals. Data were collected from February 11 to March 15th, 2019, and analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, Mann-Whitney U test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson's correlation and multiple regression analysis with SPSS statistics 24.0 Program. Results: Safety nursing activity was significantly different in relation to nurses' level of education, position at work, clinical career, clinical career at anesthetic and recovery rooms, and work experience in patient safety. Safety nursing activity demonstrated a significant positive correlation with patient safety culture and patient safety competence. Factors contributing to safety nursing activity were patient safety knowledge, skill and attitude, clinical career, clinical career at anesthetic and recovery rooms, and the patient safety improvement system which explained 57.0% of total variance of safety nursing activity. Conclusion: To improve safety nursing activities at anesthetic and recovery rooms, it is necessary to develop patient safety programs with enhanced knowledge, skill and attitude to take patient safety as a top priority.

• Korean Journal of Adult Nursing
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.154-165
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• 2017

Purpose: This study was designed to evaluate a patient safety application in the prevention of adverse event among surgical patients. Seventy three surgical patients with thirty six of them using the patient safety application and the rest (N=37) were provided educational booklet. Further, the instrument would measure patients' right to know, knowledge about patient safety, and attitude toward patient safety. Methods: The patient safety application was developed by the ADDIE along with input from experts, patients and an extensive literature review. Data were collected from 7 September through 20 October 2015. Results: The experimental group had significantly higher scores in patients' right to know (t=2.01, p=.024), knowledge on patient safety (t=3.80, p<.001) and attitude toward patient safety (t=2.74, p=.004) than those of the control group. Conclusion: The patient safety application developed using Smartphone could be an effective tool enhancing patient involvement in preventing adverse events that may occur to patients. Further studies are recommended with diverse subjects with varying medical conditions.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.16 no.12
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• pp.511-521
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• 2018

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of critical thinking, clinical decision making ability, patient safety knowledge and attitude ability to perform patient safety activities during clinical practice on nursing student's. Data were analyzed using t-tests and one-way ANOVA using the SPSS 21.0 program. As a result, the subjects' safety nursing activities was positively correlated critical thinking disposition(r=.278, p=.001), clinical decision making ability(r=.202, p=.014), patient safety attitude(r=.421, p<.001).The significant predictors of perform safety nursing activities were gender(${\beta}=.175$, p=.031), patient safety education(${\beta}=-2.266$, p=.025), critical thinking disposition(${\beta}=3.354$, p=.001), patient safety attitude(${\beta}=.368$, p<.001). These factors explained 31.5% of the variance(R2=.561, F=4.56 p<.001). It is necessary to establish a curriculum for critical thinking disposition, clinical decision making ability, and patient safety education in order to improve patient safety performance necessary for clinical practice education of nursing college students.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.121-130
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• 2017

The purposed of this study was to identify the factors that affect Confidence in Performance Patient Safety Management targeted nursing students. The study subjects were 228 nursing students. The nursing students experienced patientl safety accidents in the fall (50.0%), needle puncture (18.5%), Patient identification error (12.0%), injection medication error (7.5%) and oral medication errors (4.3%). In the logistic regression analysis, Attitude of Patient Safety Management(t=6.09, p<.001), Clinical Decision Making(t=3.97, p<.001) and gender(t=2.56, p=.011) were significant factors related to Confidence of Performance Patient Safety Management. Based on the results of this study, we propose to develop a convergence education program that considers patient safety management attitude, clinical decision making ability, and gender in order to improve confidence of performance patient safety management of nursing students.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.19 no.9
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• pp.453-461
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• 2021

This study aimed to explore the influences of safety attitude for patient and moral sensitivity in practice of standard precaution in small and medium hospital nurses. Data were collected from 150 small and medium hospital nurses in January 11, 2021 to January 22, 2021 and were analyzed using Descriptive statistics, Independent t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficients, and multiple regression. Practice of standard precaution was significantly correlated with safety attitude for patient (r=.539, p<.001) and moral sensitivity(r=.249, p=.002). Practice of standard precaution was associated safety attitude for patient, and work unit with 33.8% of the variance(F=18.47, p<.001). Based on the findings of this study, each institution needs to make efforts to strengthen the safety attitude for patient of small and medium hospital nurses for practice of standard precaution.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.17 no.10
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• pp.283-291
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• 2019

This study is a descriptive study to investigate the effects of ethical values on attitude toward patient safety of nursing students. The subjects were 179 senior nursing students in S city, and The data were collected from Aug. 21 to Sep. 15, 2017. The data collected were analyzed using SPSS Statistics version 24.0. Nursing students showed 3.74, moderate level in attitude toward patient safety. Subcategory area of ethical values as relationship with nursing client, nursing practices and relationship with collaborator were positively correlated but human-life area is negatively correlated with attitude toward patient safety. The variables that have a significant effect on the attitude toward patient safety were academic score, and major satisfaction of the general characteristics, and the sub - item of the ethical values, the client relationship area, the human - life area and the nursing practices area. These factors explained 38.6% of variance. These results should be considered in the development of education policy of nursing students and further study is needed to verify the effect of the results.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.16 no.8
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• pp.5458-5467
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• 2015

This study is descriptive research to investigate level of the attitude of patient safety and patient safety management activity(PSMA) and identify influencing factors of PSMA in nursing students. The participants were 241 4th grade nursing students who had clinical practice over a year from 3 nursing colleges in G city and J province. Data were collected with structured questionnaires from March 27th to April 17th, 2015 and analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, one way ANOVA, Pearson's correlation and multiple regression with SPSS 21.0 program. As a result, the level of attitude of patient safety was 3.68 score and PSMA was 4.03 score. In PSMA, there were significant differences in practice period(p=.020) and practice satisfaction(p=.026). There was a positive correlation(p<.001) among attitude of patient safety and PSMA. The most effective factor on PSMA was practice satisfaction, followed by attitude of patient safety. Based on the findings of this study, suggest that to develop the systematic education program considering effective factors of PSMA for nursing students.

• Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.213-221
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• 2012

Purpose: Communication in hospitals is one of the major factors in patient safety. So, the purpose of this study was to identify the relationship between intra-organizational communication satisfaction and the safety attitude of nurses in hospitals. Method: A descriptive survey design with convenience sampling was used. Data collection was done using a self-report questionnaire answered by 278 nurses from one university hospital located in Kyeoung-gi Province, Korea. Result: Intra-organizational communication satisfaction positively correlated with safety attitude (r=.747, p<.01). Among the 6 sub dimensions of safety attitude, perceptions of management (r=.675, p<.01), job satisfaction (r=.640, p<.01) and teamwork climate (r=.600. p<.01) were strongly related to intra-organizational communication satisfaction. Multiple regression analysis was done to identify explanation power of intra-organizational communication satisfaction against safety attitude. The model was significant (F=48.540, p<.01). Intra-organizational communication satisfaction accounted for 60.9% of variance in safety attitude (Adj $R^2$=.609). Conclusions: The results of this study indicate that higher levels of intra-organizational communication satisfaction promote positive safety attitude in hospital nurses and that communication media quality is an important factor in patient safety attitude. Therefore, developing interventions to revitalize intra-organizational communication level based on communication media quality will help in the construction of positive safety attitude in nurses.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.11 no.10
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• pp.307-315
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• 2020

The purpose of this study was to idenfy the factors affection patient safety management activity of small and medium-sized hospital nurses. The participants of this study were 191 nurses in 5 hospitals with less than 100-300 people and collected data by self-reported questionnaire.. Data were analyzed by the SPSS 20.0 program, As a results, significant postive correlations were founded among patient safety culture awareness, patient safety attitude, self-efficacy and patient safety management activities. And factors affecting patient safety management activities of small and medium hospital nurses were patient safety attitudes, self-efficacy, and patient safety culture awareness, and the explanatory power of these variables was 41.8%. Thus, it is proposed to develop education programs that can improve patient safety attitudes, self-efficacy, and patient safety culture awareness to promote patient safety management activities of small and medium hospital nurses.