Volume 10, Issue 1, January 2020

A Study to Assess the Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Regarding International Patient Safety Goals Among the Staff Nurses at Selected Hospital, Kanpur

Author(s): M. Raghavendran, Tapati Batacharjee and R. Revathi
Abstract: World Health Organization (WHO) calls Patient Safety an endemic concern. Patient Safety has emerged as a distinct health care discipline. The Joint Commission establishes National Patient Safety Goals which have specific requirements for protecting patients/residents. The study to assess the Knowledge, Attitude and Practice regarding International Patient Safety Goals among the staff nurses at selected Hospital, Kanpur was conducted with objectives assessing knowledge, Attitude and Practice, to assess the correlation of knowledge with attitude and practice and association of knowledge, attitude and practice with selected demographic variables. A Descriptive research design was used with 60 staff nurses who had satisfied the inclusion criteria were selected as sample by using Non Probability Purposive Sampling technique. The results show that the nursing staffs are having inadequate knowledge, with regarding to attitude most of them having positive attitude and with practice most of them having good level of practice. Regarding correlation between knowledge with attitude and practice shows positive correlation
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How To Cite this Article:

M. Raghavendran, Tapati Batacharjee and R. Revathi. A Study to Assess the Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Regarding International Patient Safety Goals Among the Staff Nurses at Selected Hospital, Kanpur. 2020; 10(1): 99-102.