Magnet hospitals are providing quality patient care and achieve nursing excellence
where patient safety goals are important guidelines to promote specific improvements in the process
of providing safe and high-quality patient care. The study aimed to assess nurses' perception toward
magnet hospital and its relation to patients‟ safety goals. Descriptive correlational design was
utilized to conduct this study. The subjects of this study included a convenient sample of 200
nurses who are working at Medical and Surgical departments at Benha University Hospital and with
at least one year of experience. Two tools were used for data collection: The first tool; Essentials
of magnetism questionnaire, The second tool: Patient safety goals questionnaire. The results: The
findings of this study showed that there was nearly three quarters of studied staff nurses had high
perception level regarding magnet hospital and the majority of them had high perception level
regarding patient safety goals. Conclusion: There was a statistical significant positive correlation
between total staff nurses' perception toward magnet hospital and patient safety goals.
Recommendation: This study recommended that hospital should provide adequate resources that
will be required to sustain work environment improvement strategies and developing a manual
about patient safety goals for staff nurses to update their knowledge and skills regarding patient
safety in their working area. |
