RESEARCH

Research Methodology

Nursing-related Patient Safety Events in Hospital1

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Methodology/Methods2

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Patient safety research: an overview of the global evidence4

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Nurse Staffing Models, Nursing Hours, and Patient Safety Outcomes7

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Summary of Conclusions9

Research Methodology

Nursing-related Patient Safety Events in Hospital

Overview

In this study, methods are identified pertaining to nursing related safety of the patients. This includes the events, types and the contributing factors in the Chinese hospitals. The events were categorized into different types; however, it have been revealed that the effective reporting of incidents can help to provide ample information about the issue of patient's safety and the formation of the program of reporting incidents voluntarily in the hospitals of China (LIU et. al., 2009, pp. 265-268).

Aim

This study is aimed at exploring different methods of identifying safety events related to nursing. Moreover, to evaluate the consequences of these events in the hospital of China (LIU et. al., 2009, pp. 265-268).

Sample

This study was conducted at two teaching hospitals in China in the province of Hubei. As a matter of fact, both of them are categorized as large hospitals across the province. Hospital A is located in the capital of Hubei Province, which has the population of 7 million. There were 2200 beds in total with a nursing staff of 1500. However, the occupancy rate was 110%. On the other hand hospital B is located in second city having a bed capacity of 1100 with 530 full time nurses. However, the difference between the rate of occupancy between these hospital was not significant. Convenient sampling method was used and fifteen adult patient unites were selected, these include, surgical, cardiovascular, gynecological, and oncological units. Data as collected from April to June, 2007 in hospital A, while from December 2007 to January 2008 in hospital B (LIU et. al., 2009, pp. 265-268).

Methodology/Methods

The designing of the incident reporting form, was based on the forms used by other studies previously. As a matter of fact, there are five parts including demographic data of patients, i.e. age, gender, date of admissions, period of stay, diagnostic reports etc., comprehensive details of the events including the time and date of occurrence of incident and involvement of people, consequence resulting from a particular event, factors fostering the event, and finally the proposed method for prevention of recurrence of same event. Nurses had the easy access of the incident report form, which was easily available at any nurse unit.

However, nurses were encouraged to fill the form and to submit it to the nurse leader. Prior permission was obtained from the nurse leaders in the hospitals from where data was collected. Moreover, it was also ensured that the performance of the hospital would not be judged from the frequency of incidents (LIU et. al., 2009, pp. 265-268).

Findings

In total 141 incidents were reported according to 15 types of senior nurses. However, the most common incident reported was the error related to medication, this further included the wrong medication, wrong route, wrong patient, wrong dosage and mal administration of the ...