The impact of safety culture, quality of care, missed care and nurse staffing on patient falls: A multisource association study

Faisal Khalaf Alanazi; Samuel Lapkin; Luke Molloy; Jenny Sim

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The impact of safety culture, quality of care, missed care and nurse staffing on patient falls: A multisource association study

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The impact of safety culture, quality of care, missed care and nurse staffing on patient falls: A multisource association study

Faisal Khalaf Alanazi, Samuel Lapkin, Luke Molloy and Jenny Sim

Journal of clinical nursing, Vol.32(19-20), pp.7260-7272

10/2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.16792

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missed care

nurse staffing

nursing

patient falls

quality of care

safety culture

Aims To examine the association between nursing unit safety culture, quality of care, missed care and nurse staffing levels, and inpatient falls using two data sources: incidence of falls and nurses' perceptions of fall frequency in their units. The study explores the association between the two sources of patient falls and identifies if nurses' perceptions of patient fall frequency reflect the actual patient falls recorded in the incident management system. Background Inpatient falls are associated with severe complications that result in extended hospitalisation and increased financial consequences for patients and healthcare services. Design A multi-source cross-sectional study guided by the STROBE guidelines. Methods A purposive sample of 33 nursing units (619 nurses) from five hospitals completed an online survey from August to November 2021. The survey measured safety culture, quality of care, missed care, nurse staffing levels and nurses' perceptions of patient fall frequency. In addition, secondary data on falls from participating units between 2018 and 2021 were also collected. Generalised linear models were fitted to examine the association between study variables. Results Nursing units with strong safety climate and working conditions and lower missed care were associated with lower rates of falls using both data sources. Nurses' perceptions of the frequency of falls in their units were reflective of the actual incidence rate of falls, but the association was not statistically significant. Conclusion Nursing units with a strong safety climate and better collaborations between nurses and other professionals, including physicians and pharmacists, were associated with lower incidents of patient falls. Relevance to Clinical Practice This study provided evidence for healthcare services and hospital managers to minimise patient falls. Patient or Public Contribution Patients who had experienced a fall, which was reported in the incident management system, from the included units in the five hospitals were part of this study.

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Title: The impact of safety culture, quality of care, missed care and nurse staffing on patient falls: A multisource association study
Creators: Faisal Khalaf Alanazi - University of Wollongong
Samuel Lapkin - Southern Cross University
Luke Molloy - Southern Cross University
Jenny Sim - University of Wollongong
Publication Details: Journal of clinical nursing, Vol.32(19-20), pp.7260-7272
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Grant note: Open access publishing facilitated by University of Wollongong, as part of the Wiley - University of Wollongong agreement via the Council of Australian University Librarians.
Identifiers: 991013124055102368
Copyright: © 2023 The Authors. Journal of Clinical Nursing published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
Academic Unit: Nursing; Faculty of Health
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article

The impact of safety culture, quality of care, missed care and nurse staffing on patient falls: A multisource association study

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