title: Evaluating the intervening factors in patient safety: focusing on hospital nursing staff.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate intervening factors in patient safety, focusing on hospital nursing staff.
  
  
  METHODS
  The study is descriptive, with qualitative approach, excerpt from a larger study with analytical nature. It was undertaken in a public hospital in Fortaleza, CE, Brazil, between January and June 2013, with semi-structured interviews to 70 nurses, using Thematic Content Analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The principal intervening factors in patient safety related to hospital nursing staff were staff dimensioning and workload, professional qualification and training, team work, being contracted to the institution, turnover and lack of job security, and bad practice/disruptive behaviors. These aspects severely interfere with the establishment of a safety culture in the hospital analyzed.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  It is necessary for managers to invest in nursing staff, so that these workers may be valued as fundamental in the promotion of patient safety, making it possible to develop competences for taking decisions with focus on the improvement of quality care.
authors: State University of Ceara, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil.
authors: Roberta Meneses
authors: RM
authors: Oliveira
authors: State University of Ceara, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil.
authors: Ilse Maria Tigre de Arruda
authors: IM
authors: Leitao
authors: State University of Ceara, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil.
authors: Leticia Lima
authors: LL
authors: Aguiar
authors: Universidad Catolica San Antonio, Spain.
authors: Adriana Catarina de Souza
authors: AC
authors: Oliveira
authors: State University of Ceara, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil.
authors: Dionisia Mateus
authors: DM
authors: Gazos
authors: State University of Ceara, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil.
authors: Lucilane Maria Sales da
authors: LM
authors: Silva
authors: State University of Ceara, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil.
authors: Ariane Alves
authors: AA
authors: Barros
authors: State University of Ceara, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil.
authors: Renata Lopes
authors: RL
authors: Sampaio
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital; D061214:Patient Safety / Q000592:standards*; D055815:Young Adult