Mohammad Zoladl, Abolfazl Dehbanizadeh, Esmat Nouhi,
Volume 12, Issue 2 (Jun & Jul 2018)
Abstract
Background and Aim: Providing safe healthcare services by medical groups, especially nurses, is a legal and human duty. Planning to prevent errors is of great importance, and the first step in this regard is to identify different types of errors and methods of error management. For this purpose, this study was conducted to examine the procedural and function errors of nurses working in Yasuj Shahid Beheshti Hospital.
Material and Methods: This study is a descriptive, cross-sectional research. The sampling method was complete enumeration and the target population included all nurses working at Yasuj Shahid Beheshti Hospital. The data collection tool was a researcher-made questionnaire. The validity and reliability (0.81) of the questionnaire were confirmed. The data were analyzed using SPSS software version 19.
Results: According to the findings of this study, 79.5% of nurses have procedural error. The most frequent error was the one made in the use of medical equipment in the ward (203 cases). Among the methods of error management, reporting and consulting with colleagues had the highest frequency (151 cases) and reporting to the patient had the lowest (8 cases).
Conclusion: The results showed that procedural and function errors by nurses were high and that nursing managers should organize training courses to identify and deal with nursing errors.
Kaveh Nouhi Bezanjani, Hamdollah Manzari Tavakoli, Sanjar Salajeghe, Ayyub Sheikhi,
Volume 13, Issue 1 (Apr & May 2019)
Abstract
Background and Aim: This study was conducted due to the increasing importance of ethics in providing nursing care and also due to the role of nurses' moral intelligence in quality of care; meanwhile, the role of authentic leadership (AL) in enhancing the moral intelligence of nurses working in Kerman University of Medical Sciences hospitals was investigated.
Materials and Methods: This is a mixed methods research. In this study, after defining nurses’ moral intelligence model qualitatively, the relationship between nurses’ moral intelligence and authentic leadership (AL) was tested quantitatively.
In order to study authentic leadership, the AL standard questionnaire of Walumbwa & et al (2008) with a reliability of 0.917 was used; moreover, a researcher-made questionnaire was used for investigating moral intelligence with overall validity (81%) and reliability (0.961). The statistical population of the study consisted of 400 hospital nurses selected by stratified sampling method. SPSS20 and Amos24 software, and statistical methods of exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis as well as structural equation modeling were used to analyze the research hypotheses.
Results: The results showed a positive and significant relationship between AL and moral intelligence of nurses (0.575). In addition, all components of AL, i. e., self-awareness (0.322), internalized moral perspective (0.360), relational transparency (0.408), balanced processing (0.394) showed a positive and significant relationship with moral intelligence.
Conclusion: Applying suitable strategies for enhancing moral intelligence of nurses and improving the quality of nursing care can have a positive effect on the quality of services. The AL in the hospitals' nursing system is one of the most suitable ways for developing the moral intelligence of nurses.
