The Relationship between Nursing Communication, Professional Skills, and Patient Safety Culture among Critical Care Nurses: A Descriptive Study

Abstract

Background: Patient safety is a very crucial and significant issue in nursing. To improve patient safety, a systematic, organizational approach should be considered to create a patient safety culture.

Objectives: The study aimed to examine the relationship between nursing communication, Professional skills, and Patients safety culture among critical care nurses.

Materials and Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study design was conducted among nurses working in critical care units at eight teaching hospitals in the southern provinces of Iraq (Basra, Maysan, Di Qar). A self-administered questionnaire method was used to collect data it’s composed of three parts, Part I: consisted of the patient’s demographic data, Part II: Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSOPSC) Part III: consisted of nursing performance by used Six-Dimension Scale of Nursing Performance

Results: the study result display strong statistically significance relationship between nursing communication, professional skill and patient safety culture, while there was no statistically significance between communication and number of incidents reported p > 0.05 level. The professional skill showed statistically significance with overall patient safety culture (p = 0.000, 0.320), was no significance correlation between professional skill and of all reporting abut incident (p =0.285) and assessment of patent safety culture (p = 0.151) by nurses working in critical care unites at the teaching hospital.

Conclusion: The study result confirms that nursing communication and professional practice, is an important factor in developing patient safety culture in critical care unites. This disparity highlights that personal competency of nurses alone cannot overcoming on systemic obstacles.