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. 2018 Nov 23;6(11):2228-2232.
doi: 10.3889/oamjms.2018.351. eCollection 2018 Nov 25.

The Relationship between Nurse's Job Stress and Patient Safety

Meysam Safi Keykaleh  1 , Hamid Safarpour  1 , Shiva Yousefian  1 , Farshad Faghisolouk  1 , Ehsan Mohammadi  2 , Zohreh Ghomian  1
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The Relationship between Nurse's Job Stress and Patient Safety

Meysam Safi Keykaleh et al. Open Access Maced J Med Sci. .

Abstract

Background: Patient safety is a key element of the quality of health services. Nurses are the largest group that care for patients, observing safe in nursing care would reduce injuries, disability, morbidity and mortality. However, high stress can lead to a decline in the quality of nursing care.

Aim: This study aimed to investigate the relationship between job stress of the nurses and patient safety in a teaching hospital of Hamadan in 2017.

Material and methods: This is a cross-sectional study. The data was gathered by a questionnaire of Nurse's job stress prepared by the researcher that after confirming the validity and reliability was completed by 198 nurses of three teaching hospitals of Hamadan city that were selected by simple random sampling and the checklist of patient safety that was collected by the researcher. Data analysis was done in the two levels of descriptive and analysis statistics.

Results: The results showed that the job stress of the nurses and patient safety (mean = 1.75 and SD = 0.114) have been at an average level. There was no statistically significant relationship between Nurse's job stress and patient safety because the Spearman correlation coefficient showed that r = 0.007 and p = 0.919. Among the demographic factors, there was only a significant relationship between marital status and Nurse's job stress (p < 0.05).

Conclusion: Because of nursing job stress is affected by different working conditions, further studies in the many hospitals are needed. Moderate levels of patient safety are not acceptable; Therefore, heath's policymakers should focus on providing the safety of all patients at the optimal level, with more effort to reduce the stress of their nurses at the lowest level.

Keywords: Iran; Job stress; Nurse; Patient safety; Work-related stress.

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