Hospital unit safety climate: Relationship with nurses' adherence to recommended use of facial protective equipment

Abstract

Unit-level safety climate measures varied significantly between units. Strategies to improve unit-level communication regarding safety should assist in improving adherence to FPE.

Perceived Infection Prevention Climate and Its Predictors Among Nurses in Saudi Arabia

“…The researchers found that organizational characteristics such as staffing and teamwork within units were correlated with overall standard precaution adherence. In addition, Rozenbojm, Nichol, Spielmann, and Holness () performed a secondary data analysis investigating hospital unit safety climate and its relationship to nurses’ adherence to using facial protective equipment. The analysis found that safety climate varies significantly between units and that nurses’ individual tenure and unit‐level communication were significant predictors of the adherence to use of facial protective equipment.…”

Evaluation of an Infection Control Measures Protocol Application by Nurses on Patients' Safety at Burn Units

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Radiation safety education and compliance with safety procedures—The Korea Nurses’ Health Study

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