Nurses' Knowledge, Attitudes, and Skills towards Psychiatric Patients' Safety
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Nursing and health Science - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 3
Abstract
Psychiatric nurses are responsible for working with large numbers of patients who suffer from serious mental health conditions in ways that promote recovery and ensure safety from harm by access useful information about the health and safety of each person. The aim was to assess the nurses' knowledge, attitudes, and skills towards psychiatric patient safety. A cross-sectional exploratory research design was adopted to carry out this study. It was conducted at 6 psychiatric inpatient hospitals located in cities in Egypt, involving 350 psychiatric nurses. Socio-demographic characteristics sheet, psychiatric patient safety skills scale, and patient safety attitudes, skills and knowledge scale. This study results revealed that while 79.7% of the studied nurses had sufficient knowledge. 53.4% of the s studied nurses stated that they had competent skills towards the psychiatric patients’ safety. The study concluded that the studied nurses have sufficient knowledge, and competent skills yet a negative attitude was detected towards the safety of psychiatric patients. There were positive relationships between nurses' attitudes, knowledge, and skills regarding patients’ safety. The findings support that nursing staff needs more meetings and conferences to provide them with up-to-date information, to improve their knowledge, attitudes, and skills on how to deal with psychiatric patient safety.
Authors and Affiliations
Saida El Sayed Hassan Ibrahim El-Azzab, Azza Mohamed Abd El-Aziz
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