The Development of a Baseline Evaluation of the Current Knowledge of Nurses about Patient Safety on Nurse Remote Area Clinic (RAC), Saudi Arabia

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Chapter 3: Methodology

 Introduction

This is a quality improvement project that seeks to explore the development of a baseline evaluation of the current state of patient safety knowledge of staff nurses and provide them with information about quality and safety approaches. Descriptive statistics has been used to analyze the data. The DNP Student investigator plans to disseminate the results of this capstone project via conference proceedings and a published manuscript and is therefore seeking IRB approval.

Subjects and Setting:

The potential subjects were located at Saudi Aramco. This is where the highest number of nurses (92) utilizes remote area clinics (RAC's) as one of the innovative and creative approaches towards standard health care provisions. All 92 nurses has been invited to participate in the DNP capstone. The nurses that agree to participate in the study has been taking the pre/post tests and will attend the staff development session.

Procedure:

For purposes of carrying out this capstone project, RAC is chosen because it has the highest number of nurses (92). In addition, it is the unit in which the DNP student has spent the most time, thereby building relationships and working in concert.

Approval to conduct the study has been sought from the Saudi Aramco project RAC management team to collect data regarding the DNP capstone project (Appendix A).

All staff nurses at the RAC has been invited to participate in the staff development program and pre and post assessments of learning. To assure the broadest possible base of involvement, efforts has been used to recruit nursing staff.

All participating nurses has been requested to permit the DNP student to use their deidentified scores on the pre and post test as part of the doctoral student's capstone project. The participants has been informed of the Point of contact (POC) person who has committed to confidentiality and deidentify their test scores, has been the only person to know the identity of those individuals who were permitting the use of their test scores, and those who were not. The DNP student investigator is the QI coordinator and administrator of the RACs thus seeking deindetification of the test scores so that the nurses did not feel obliged to report them by their boss. Flyers (Appendix B) indicating a project on patient safety and nursing quality improvement were developed and has been placed in the clinic after seeking the IRB approval. Emails indicating a project on patient safety and nursing quality improvement has also be sent to all nurses inviting them for the session. To accommodate staff members who may not get information concerning the project via email, flyers has been placed in changing rooms and other common areas.

The secretary working at the clinic has agreed to be the point of contact (POC) in the process of data collection. The role of the POC person is to remove the names of all individuals who participate in ...