title: Predictors of Hospital Nurses' Safety Practices: Work Environment, Workload, Job Satisfaction, and Error Reporting.
abstract: Nurses' safety practices of medication administration, prevention of falls and unplanned extubations, and handover are essentials to patient safety. This study explored the prediction between such safety practices and work environment factors, workload, job satisfaction, and error-reporting culture of 1429 Taiwanese nurses. Nurses' job satisfaction, error-reporting culture, and one environmental factor of nursing quality were found to be major predictors of safety practices. The other environment factors related to professional development and participation in hospital affairs and nurses' workload had limited predictive effects on the safety practices. Increasing nurses' attention to patient safety by improving these predictors is recommended.
authors.affiliation: Nursing Department, Chi Mei Medical Center, Yung-kang Dist, Tainan, Taiwan (Dr Chiang); Chang Jung Christian University, Kway-Jen Dist, Tainan, Taiwan (Dr Chiang); Chang-Gung Institute of Technology, Kwei-Shan, Tao-Yau, Taiwan (Dr Hsiao); and Department of Nursing, National Cheng-Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan (Dr Lee).
authors.forename: Hui-Ying
authors.initials: HY
authors.lastname: Chiang
authors.forename: Ya-Chu
authors.initials: YC
authors.lastname: Hsiao
authors.forename: Huan-Fang
authors.initials: HF
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D061214:Patient Safety; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012308:Risk Management; D017751:Safety Management / Q000379:methods*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013624:Taiwan; D014342:Truth Disclosure; D016526:Workload / Q000523:psychology*; D017132:Workplace