Patient Safety Culture in a maternity

Patient Safety Culture in a maternity

Blog Article

Objective: assess the culture of patient safety from the perspective of a multiprofessional maternity team.Method: transversal, quantitative study, through the questionnaire Hospital Toilet Aids Survey on Patient Safety Culture.62 professionals from a hospital in Rio Grande do Sul participated.The data was analyzed by descriptive statistics.

Results: the team did not identify areas of positive force; two dimensions were neutral, organizational learning and continuous improvement (59,5%); expectation and supervisor action (51,1%).The ten remaining showed potential to improve, being that non-punitive responses to errors (15,5%) and support from management (29,6%) obtained the lowest scores.The majority of professionals did not relate events in twelve months (80,6%) and assessed the degree of patient safety as regular (59,7%).Conclusion: the maternity has a culture of patient safety that is vulnerable, punitive, with weak adherence Floor Mats to notifications, requiring greater initiatives and support from management for essential changes to reach better results.