Application of Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Ssafety (STEPPS) for Improving Patient Safety Culture among Nurses

Abstract

Background: People in every workplace talk about building the team, working as a team, but few understand how to develop an effective team. Belonging to a team, in the broadest sense, and learn team STEPPS strategies and tools to enhance performance and patient safety are a result of feeling part of something larger than yourself to contribute to the overall success of the organization. This study aims to designing and implementing a program related to team strategies and tools to enhance performance and patient safety (STEPPS) for improving patient safety culture among nurses. Research design: One group pretest-posttest design. Setting: This study was conducted in nine Units at the cardiovascular hospital, which affiliated to Ain Shams University Hospitals. Subject: 54 nurses. Tools of the study involved team STEPPS knowledge questionnaire, Patient safety culture questionnaire and team STEPPS teamwork attitudes questionnaire Results: There was positive significant correlation between total nurses knowledge related to team STEPPS, attitude related to team STEPPS and awareness of patient safety culture dimensions. Conclusion: The current study concluded that the tanning program was effective in improving the nurse’s knowledge related to team STEPPS, attitude related to team STEPPS and awareness of patient safety culture. Study also indicated positive correlations between nurses' knowledge, attitude and awareness of patient safety culture. Recommendations: Further studies should be conducted to: Determined the effect of team STEPPS on the quality of patient care in different hospital settings, and investigate the impact of health care personnel awareness' of team STEPPS on their actual performanc