Yuansong Lan, Yan Qin, Yuhua Zhou, Zhengyan Jiang, Qian Liu, Debin Huang, Weiyu Tan
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Relationship between ICU nurses' perception of patient safety, caring behaviour, professional self-efficacy and nursing deficits: A multiple mediation analysis.
Background: Missed nursing care (MNC) is a significant global issue in health care, especially in intensive care units (ICUs) where the complexity of patient care and high workloads increase the risk of errors and omissions. Nursing deficits impact patient safety, nurse efficiency and psychological well-being, yet the relationship between ICU nurses' perceptions of patient safety, their caring behaviour, professional self-efficacy and nursing deficits remains underexplored.
Aim: This study aimed to examine the relationships between ICU nurses' perceptions of patient safety, caring behaviour, professional self-efficacy and nursing deficits through a multiple mediation model.
Study design: A cross-sectional survey was conducted with 304 ICU nurses from general hospitals in Guangxi Province between January 2022 and January 2024. The study used validated instruments to measure patient safety perception, caring behaviour, professional self-efficacy and nursing deficits. Spearman correlation and multiple mediation analyses were applied to explore the relationships among these variables.
Results: ICU nurses reported average scores of 63.35 ± 8.06 for patient safety perception, 70.28 ± 12.14 for caring behaviour, 26.19 ± 4.57 for professional self-efficacy and 75.92 ± 17.68 for nursing deficits. Significant negative correlations were found between patient safety perception, caring behaviour, professional self-efficacy and nursing deficits (r = -.483, -.516, -.326, p < .01). Caring behaviour and self-efficacy mediated the relationship between patient safety perception and nursing deficits, accounting for 74.65% of the total effect. This study follows the STrengthening the Reporting of OBservational studies in Epidemiology guidelines.
Conclusions: This study highlights that improving ICU nurses' perceptions of patient safety can reduce nursing deficits by enhancing caring behaviour and professional self-efficacy, offering a pathway to improve care quality in ICUs.
Relevance to clinical practice: Hospital administrators should focus on strategies that enhance ICU nurses' safety perception, caring behaviour and self-efficacy to reduce nursing deficits and improve patient outcomes.
期刊介绍：
Nursing in Critical Care is an international peer-reviewed journal covering any aspect of critical care nursing practice, research, education or management. Critical care nursing is defined as the whole spectrum of skills, knowledge and attitudes utilised by practitioners in any setting where adults or children, and their families, are experiencing acute and critical illness. Such settings encompass general and specialist hospitals, and the community. Nursing in Critical Care covers the diverse specialities of critical care nursing including surgery, medicine, cardiac, renal, neurosciences, haematology, obstetrics, accident and emergency, neonatal nursing and paediatrics.
Papers published in the journal normally fall into one of the following categories:
-research reports
-literature reviews
-developments in practice, education or management
-reflections on practice
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