Pengalaman Perawat Menerapkan Prosedur Keselamatan Pada Klien Lanjut Usia

Abstract

Patient safety procedures need to be done to prevent patient safety incidents. The purpose of the study is to explore the experience of room nurses applying patient safety procedures to elderly clients. Qualitative research design with phenomenological study approach. Participants are implementing nurses who have experience in caring for elderly patients as many as 6 nurses. Data collection was stopped when the data received were saturated through in-depth interviews. The method of analysis was the Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA). This research has passed the ethical clearance. Based on the results of the analysis, there are seven themes that can be found, namely understanding patient safety, the concept of elderly, forms of patient safety, supporting factors, inhibiting factors, efforts to overcome obstacles and the benefits of bothering patient safety procedures. Nurses' understanding of patient safety is an action to prevent incidents from occurring due to an action taken on the patient. In carrying out patient safety procedures for the elderly, the nurse finds several supporting and inhibiting factors. Nurses and patients feel safe when patient safety procedures are performed properly. Patient safety is a procedure that is closely related to the actions taken by the nurse. The experience of nurses in applying safety procedures to elderly clients provides a sense of security when take an action.  Keywords: elderly, nurse, patient safety