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

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

Background of Study

A study of service providers in country Saudi Arabia identified four key difficulties in supplying value patient services: expanse and need of transport, cost of service for client, need of alternatives in services, and lack of accomplished staff. In follow-up study , three topics were recognised associated to adversities and possibilities facing nurses working in country and remote areas: access to and accessibility of services, value of services, and junction employed practices(Baggs et al., 1992). Nurses or self-referral were key paths to accessing services, proposing that nurses need to be cognizant of accessible support services and perceptive to how communal contexts and worth schemes influence an individual's proficiency to get access to services. (Institute of Medicine 1999)

In Saudi Arabia, Shope et al. found that data and referral bureaus in built-up backgrounds were more probable to report doctor focusing in elder care inside 50 miles; country bureaus were more probable to report purchaser inaccessibility to services and need of transportation (Ball, 2002).

Also in Saudi Arabia , country providers and community managers recognised caregiver desires for patient care data and learning considering characteristics, diagnosis, and administration of patient, and accessibility of community support services (Baggs, 1994).

The basis for scientific practice of nursing includes nursing science; biomedical, physical, economic, behavioral and social sciences; ethics; and philosophy. A nurse's ability to be critical thinker and to use this knowledge in delivery of nursing care is essential to well being and safety of those for whom nurses care (Ballard, 2002). In discussing contemporary nursing practice, ANA states that an essential feature of nursing is provision of caring relationship that facilitates health and healing (ANA, 2003). In Crimea, Nightingale conducted some of earliest nursing studies on factors influencing outcomes of patient care (Nightingale, 1859). It is important that nurses work to continue these traditions by strengthening nurse-patient relationship and diligently using research findings so as to provide safe care for patients. (Roberts 2006)

Clinical issues must be connected to conceptual models of nursing. This substantiates clinical issue as valid to practice of nursing (Barnett et al., 2000).

Safety concerns are relevant to nursing theory because safety is direct result of environment. Using Jean Watson' caring theory, Dorothea Orem's, Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory and Patricia Benner's Novice to Expert nursing theory, this paper will discuss several approaches to ensuring patient safety (Keating, 2006).

Dorothea Orem's Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory (SCDNT) can be applied during illness or wellness at any time of life. This theory also works in variety of care settings with little or no modification. Orem believed nursing should be autonomous in providing care and SCDNT should focus on patient not nurse. Nurses provide care for patient's through acting, teaching, supporting, or providing supportive ...