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

Abstract

Background: Many health care organizations now embrace the idea of teams’ approaches as a better way to use employee talent and building teams as the core part in several organizations using team STEPPS. This study aims at designing and implementing a training 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 in the cardiovascular hospital, which affiliated to Ain Shams University Hospitals. Subject: 54 nurses. Tools of the study used team STEPPS knowledge questionnaire, Patient safety culture questionnaire and team STEPPS teamwork attitudes questionnaire Results: There was a positive significant correlation between total nurses' knowledge related to team STEPPS, attitude related to team STEPPS and awareness of patient safety culture dimensions.