title: The impact of educational interventions on enhancing perceptions of patient safety culture among Jordanian senior nurses.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The worldwide rate of medical errors and the subsequent patient harm triggered the healthcare organizations to find solutions to transform their punitive culture to safety culture.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of patient safety educational interventions among senior nurses on their perceptions of safety culture, and the rate of reported adverse events, pressure ulcers, and patients' falls.
  
  
  METHODS
  The design of the study was a quasi-experimental without control group. Fifty-seven senior nurses received the educational program. The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSPSC) was administered pre and 4 months post the educational program, and the rate of reported adverse events, pressure ulcers, and patients' falls were collected 4 months pre and 4 months post the educational program.
  
  
  RESULTS
  There were significant improvements of senior nurses' positive scores of two composites, "Frequency of event reporting" and "Non-punitive response to errors," and significant decline of the rate of adverse events.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The findings of the study suggested that patient safety educational interventions could be used by nursing administrators to enhance subcultures of patient safety such as "reporting" and "blame free," and to decrease the rate of adverse events.
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan.
authors.forename: Raeda Fawzi
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: AbuAlRub
authors.forename: Eyad Hani
authors.initials: EH
authors.lastname: Abu Alhijaa
mesh_terms: D004496:Education, Continuing; D006801:Humans; D007597:Jordan; D019300:Medical Errors; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology*; D015279:Organizational Culture; D061214:Patient Safety; D010465:Perception; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: Adverse event; Jordan; educational interventions; nurses; safety culture