Abstract :
The present study describes nurses knowledge, attitude and self reported practice regarding safe patient care. A quantitative descriptive correlational design study, using purposive sampling technique was conducted on 70 ICU nurses. The overall result indicates that majority of the sample has good knowledge 93 and positive attitude 87 towards safe patient care. All sample 100 reported good patient safety practices. The findings of the study also show no association between knowledge with educational status and years of experience 2 =0.021, 0.86 at 0.05 level of significance. The association between attitude with educational status and year of experience 2 =152.56, 80.2 are statistically significant at .05 level. While there is a correlation exists between knowledge and practice r=0.361, p=0.002 at 0.05 level of significance, the correlation between knowledge and attitude r=0.208, p=0.084 , practice and attitude r=0.032, p=0.795 are not significant at 0.05 level. Lillykutty M. J | Josy A Mathew | Dhanya Jose "Safe Patient Care: Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Among ICU Nurses" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-2 | Issue-5 , August 2018, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd15882.pdf Paper URL: http://www.ijtsrd.com/medicine/nursing/15882/safe-patient-care-knowledge-attitude-and-practice-among-icu-nurses/lillykutty-m-j
Keyword :
knowledge, attitude, practice, safe patient care, ICU nurses