Importance of safety climate, teamwork climate and demographics: understanding nurses, allied health professionals and clerical staff perceptions of patient safety

dc.contributor.authorZaheer, Shahram
dc.contributor.authorGinsburg, Liane
dc.contributor.authorWong, Hannah
dc.contributor.authorThomson, Kelly
dc.contributor.authorBain, Lorna
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-18T18:31:52Z
dc.date.available2020-03-18T18:31:52Z
dc.date.issued2018-11-28
dc.description.abstractBackground: There is growing evidence regarding the importance of contextual factors for patient/staff outcomes and the likelihood of successfully implementing safety improvement interventions such as checklists; however, certain literature gaps still remain—for example, lack of research examining the interactive effects of safety constructs on outcomes. This study has addressed some of these gaps, together with adding to our understanding of how context influences safety. Purpose: The impact of staff perceptions of safety climate (ie, senior and supervisory leadership support for safety) and teamwork climate on a self-reported safety outcome (ie, overall perceptions of patient safety (PS)) were examined at a hospital in Southern Ontario. Methods: Cross-sectional survey data were collected from nurses, allied health professionals and unit clerks working on intensive care, general medicine, mental health or emergency department. Results: Hierarchical regression analyses showed that perceptions of senior leadership (p<0.001) and teamwork (p<0.001) were significantly associated with overall perceptions of PS. A non-significant association was found between perceptions of supervisory leadership and the outcome variable. However, when staff perceived poorer senior leadership support for safety, the positive effect of supervisory leadership on overall perceptions of PS became significantly stronger (p<0.05). Practice implications: Our results suggest that leadership support at one level (ie, supervisory) can substitute for the absence of leadership support for safety at another level (ie, senior level). While healthcare organisations should recruit into leadership roles and retain individuals who prioritise safety and possess adequate relational competencies, the field would now benefit from evidence regarding how to build leadership support for PS. Also, it is important to provide on-site workshops on topics (eg, conflict management) that can strengthen working relationships across professional and unit boundaries.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipYork University Librariesen_US
dc.identifier.citationBMJ Open Quality 7 (2018): e000433.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjoq-2018-000433en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10315/37148
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherBMJen_US
dc.rightsAttribution 2.5 Canada*
dc.rights.articlehttps://bmjopenquality.bmj.com/content/7/4/e000433en_US
dc.rights.journalhttps://bmjopenquality.bmj.com/en_US
dc.rights.publisherhttps://www.bmj.com/en_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ca/*
dc.titleImportance of safety climate, teamwork climate and demographics: understanding nurses, allied health professionals and clerical staff perceptions of patient safetyen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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