| خلاصه مقاله | Background and Aim: Positive attitude of nurses toward patient safety can play a major role in increasingthe quality of nursing care and reducing missed nursing care. This study was conducted with the aim of investigating the missed nursing care care is a missing truth in the safety chain of patients.
Materials and methods:This study was conducted in 2021 at the hospitals of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences (Iran). In the present study, 351 nurses were included in the study by using a strati-fied random sampling method. Data collection tools were demographic questionnaire, missed nursing care questionnaire, and patient safety attitudes questionnaire. Missed Nursing Care Questionnaire includes 24 items, such as patient movement, rotation, evaluation, training, dis-charge planning, medication prescription, scored on a 4-point Likert scale ranging from score 1(I miss rarely), score 2 (I miss occasionally), score 3 (I miss usually), and score 4 (I miss always).The highest score is 96 and the lowest score is 24 on this scale. A higher score indicates a higherpossibility of missed care.
Results: The mean total (standard deviation) of missed nursing care was 32.76 (7.13) (score range: 24---96) and Results of evaluating missed nursing care showed that the highest mean score of missed nursing care belonged to participating in interdisciplinary classes of patient care, monitoring of food preparation for the patient who can eat himself or herself, performing or monitoring the patient’s baths and skincare, respectively.
Conclusion: According to the results , it is essential to use individual and organizational interventions toincrease patient safety attitudes in various dimensions in nurses and consequently to reducemissed nursing care and improve the quality of healthcare. |