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Nurses’ attitudes toward quality improvement in hospitals: Implications for nursing management systems
- Source :
- Nursing Practice Today, Vol 8, Iss 3 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Tehran University of Medical Sciences, 2021.
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Abstract
- Background & Aim: Quality improvement in hospitals is a systematically widely used framework that improves patient care quality delivered by health care professionals. This study assessed the attitude of nurses toward Quality Improvement. Methods & Materials: A quantitative research approach was used. A total of 361 nurses working in two government hospitals and two private hospitals in the Philippines were selected using convenience sampling. The data collected using a self-administered questionnaire was started in March-April 2019. To identify the association between nurse demographic characteristics and perceived quality improvement, an independent sample t-test, a one-way analysis of variance with a post-hoc Tukey HSD test, and a Pearson’s product-moment correlation were conducted using SPSS. Results: Nurses have high positive quality improvement attitude scores. The age, salary, and hospital type, influence quality improvement attitude scores. Conclusion: Nurses have a positive attitude towards qualitative improvement. In addition, nurses’ age, salary, and public hospitals' work have a positive qualitative improvement than nurses working in private hospitals.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 23831162 and 23831154
- Volume :
- 8
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Nursing Practice Today
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e13f2eb1d08c338149e70202f60ff518