NATIONAL PATIENT SAFETY GOALS: AWARENESS AMONG NURSES IN SUPERSPECIALITY HOSPITAL OF DELHI

Abstract

Death by medicine is gaining serious attention from all the stakeholders and safety is becoming central to patient care in modern medicine. PSGs are meant to ensure the patient is not harmed due to hospitalization. The awareness regarding PSGs is elementary to their implementation; hence the study attempts to gauge the same. A quantitative, non-interventional, and prospective study approved by the Institutional Research Review Committee was carried out using a pre-tested questionnaire on 25% randomly selected nursing personnel (60) to measure their awareness regarding the PSGs. The primary objectives of the study were to assess the awareness level among the nursing staff regarding NPSGs and identifying areas warranting immediate attention about PSGs. The study revealed that 75% of nurses had a diploma in GNM and 25% were graduates of nursing. The awareness level of nurses was highest for infection control at 91.4% followed by patient identification and medication safety at 86.34% and 76.6%. Effective communication among care providers stood at the last pedestal with a 72.5% level of awareness. Out of a total of 30 areas, 8 areas scored less than 80% on awareness scale and were triaged for focused intervention. 11 areas scored between 80-95% and will be targeted as level two for intervention followed by leftover 7 areas which scored more than 95% on the scale.