PERCEPTION OF NURSES AND TECHNICIANS ABOUT MEDICAL ADVERSE EVENTS AT THE NATIONAL LUNG HOSPITAL
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Background: Medical adverse events are undesirable situations that occur in the process of diagnosis, care and treatment that are not caused by the patient's disease or condition, affecting the patient's health and life. Objective: Description of perception of nurses and technicians about medical adverse events at the National Lung Hospital, in 2018-2019. Methods: Cross-sectional study. The study collected information from 363 nurses and technicians at the National Lung Hospital through questionnaires. Data were entered by Epidata 3.1 and analyzed by SPSS 22.0. Results: The finding showed that, 77.4% of nurses and technicians have good knowledge of medical adverse events (SCYK), 60.9% of nurses and technicians thought that SCYK causes mild injury to patients, no harm to patients (59.2%); can cause death (8.8%) and serious harm to patients (13.5%). Over 90% of nurses and technicians thought that reporting SCYK was necessary, reporting and analyzing SCYK would help them learn to prevent recurrence. 66.1% of nurses and technicians have reported about SCYK. The mainly cause why nurses and techinicians reported SCYK were to avoid serious consequences (82.1%) and to be honest and responsible for work (66.9%). The reasons why nurses and technicians dit not report SCYK were they fear of implicating others (39.9%), fear of being accused (35.5%), having fixed the problem (25.3%) and do not know the form of reporting (18.7%).
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Perception of medical adverse events, nurses and technicants
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