This quantitative descriptive-exploratory study aimed to evaluate the perception of nursing professionals regarding the patient safety culture and to identify differences in perception in the hospital's units. A total of 301 nursing professionals participated. The collection instrument was the Agency for...
The aim of the present study was to acknowledge the significant aspects brought about by nurses regarding their experience of being responsible for the occurrence of health adverse events. This exploratory qualitative study employed a hermeneutic dialectic approach. The sample comprised 10 nurses who had...
This quantitative, survey type study aimed to analyze the patient safety culture of the nursing and medical teams of public hospitals of Florianopolis. A total of 141 professionals participated, with data collected between February/April 2013, after approval by the Ethics Committee. The Hospital Survey o...
OBJECTIVE: to verify the assessment of the patient safety culture according to the function and length of experience of the nursing and medical teams at Neonatal Intensive Care Units. METHOD: quantitative survey undertaken at four Neonatal Intensive Care Units in Florianópolis, Brazil. The sample totale...
Descriptive study, with qualitative approach, in order to understand the perception of the nursing staff regarding the safety of elderly patients in the administration of iodinated contrast media, conducted at the diagnostic imaging centers of two private hospitals, located in Brasília, Federal District...
Objective: Identify the factors co-responsible for infection related to external ventricular shunt (EVS). Method: This is a retrospective study with quantitative data analysis developed at the Medical Archive Service of a public hospital which is a reference in neurosurgery in Pernambuco, Brazil. The sam...
