DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2018.v06i03.024

Pages: 929-931

Patient safety has been an increasingly important topic of interest over the last decade, although there are still many fields where further research is needed. Patient safety is a global issue affecting countries at all levels of many patients suffer from preventable harm during the health care in hospitals and each year many people die from medical errors. The primary data will be collected from staff nurses in a selected tertiary care hospital. The research approach adopted in this study is descriptive cross sectional type. A structured questionnaire method will be developed and administered on nurses to assess knowledge, attitude and practice on Patient Safety Goals among the staff nurses. The questionare was filled either by interviewing the staff nurses via phone or they filled it themselves .Collected data was analyzed by frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation and chi-square test. The mean age in the study was 24 years the mean BMI was 19.5 years; there were 10 males and 90 females. Most of the safety practices were being followed. Orientation of the patients towards their safety and of the patient needs a regular reinforcement. In order to make sure that the practices be followed the suggestions of the nurses and those involved in health care at the ground level be brought to the notice of the concerned authorities so that appropriate action be taken