Table 3 Knowledge of Patient Safety among Study Participants (N = 307)
From: Knowledge, attitudes, and practices toward Patient Safety among nurses in health centers
1 | The clinical environment can be a cause of errors | |
No | 32 (10.4%) | |
Yes | 275 (89.6%) | |
2 | Medical errors are a sign of incompetence | |
No | 153 (49.8%) | |
Yes | 154 (50.2%) | |
3 | The key to patient safety strategies is set by national health surveillance | |
No | 40 (13%) | |
Yes | 267 (87%) | |
4 | Patients have an important role in preventing errors | |
No | 54 (17.6%) | |
Yes | 253 (82.4%) | |
5 | Human error is inevitable | |
No | 76 (24.8%) | |
Yes | 231 (75.2%) | |
6 | An adverse event is an event that affected the patient | |
No | 14 (4.6%) | |
Yes | 293 (95.4%) | |
7 | Patient safety is the characteristic of a highly reliable health care Organization | |
No | 4 (1.3%) | |
Yes | 303 (98.7%) | |
8 | The key dimension of patient safety is culture | |
No | 21 (6.8%) | |
Yes | 286 (93.2%) | |
9 | A mistake is a failure to execute an action plan as intended or the implementation of the wrong plan | |
No | 46 (15%) | |
Yes | 261 (85%) | |
10 | There are contributing factors to the occurrence of clinical errors | |
No | 10 (3.3%) | |
Yes | 297 (96.7%) | |
11 | There should be a next step to be done after the occurrence of an error | |
No | 8 (2.6%) | |
Yes | 299 (97.4%) |