Experience of health workers in improving patient safety in hospitals through interprofessional collaboration: study qualitative

Introduction: Patient safety is a global problem because patient safety incidents that occurare estimated to be 134 million incidents due to unsafe care and 2.6 million resulting indeath. Indonesia recorded a patient safety incident rate of 23.5%, so interprofessionalcollaboration is necessary to minimize this condition.Objective: This study aims to identify the experience of health workers in improvingpatient safety in hospitals through interprofessional collaboration. The method in this studyis a qualitative design with an interpretive descriptive approach.Methods: The method in this study is a qualitative design with an interpretive descriptiveapproach. The method in this study is qualitative with a descriptive-interpretative approachdesign. Implementation method with FGD on five professional health workers.Result: The results of the study contained 8 (eight) themes showing the experience ofhealth workers in improving patient safety in hospitals through interprofessionalcollaboration including understanding health workers in improving patient safety,implementation of patient safety for health workers in interprofessional collaboration,hospital management support, obstacles and expectations health workers in improvingpatient safety through interprofessional collaboration.Conclusion: The results of the study contained the experience of health workers on theimplementation of patient safety in hospitals through interprofessional collaboration,namely identifying actions in providing services with uniform documentation and alsocoordinating actions according to Standart Operastional Procedur (SOPs), creatingcommunication according to Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation (SBAR),joint commitment in providing services in hospitals, uniform training in hospitals, reducingbarriers in both personal and management services, awareness, interest and motivationfrom each profession, facilities that support the implementation of patient safety open andtransparent system, monitoring evaluation regulary and facilitating staff.