All correlations with the patient safety grade were significant except dimensions of "staffing" and "non-punitive response to error".
The positive response rate of four dimensions of Staffing, Feedback & Communication About Errors, overall Perception of Patient Safety and Management Support for Patient Safety (45%, 50%, 55%and69%9%, respectively) was lower than that of US study (56%, 64% 66% and 72%, respectively).
This analysis focused on the sensory dimensions of nursing staff's experiences of their working practices and the effect of the built environment upon these.
There was a small (0.08 points on a 5 point scale) but significant (P<0.01) effect in favour of the SPI1 hospitals in one of 11 dimensions of the staff questionnaire (organisational climate).
The survey, fielded in 2012 at all VANA sites, was designed to gather information on a number of dimensions of the staff nurses' experience working on units which hosted these clinical training programs.
In the analysis of the overall score according to the type of professional category, nurses who carried out management functions had significantly higher scores (p = 0.004), in three factors: Participation in issues related to the centre, Foundation of quality nursing care and Dimension of nursing staff and adequacy of human resources.
The instrument contains 31 items, grouped in 5 factors: 1) Nurse participation in issues related to HC; 2) Foundation of quality of nursing care; 3) Capacity, leadership and support to nurses by nurse managers; 4) Dimension of nursing staff and adequacy of human resources and 5) Relationship between physicians and nurses.
The survey comprises 33 questions related to the four dimensions of practice and staff (13 questions), communication (7 questions), treatment (9 questions), and overall impression (4 questions).
In developing performance measurement algorithms for the Consumers Union 2006 Nursing Home Quality Monitor, we considered three basic dimensions of quality: nurse staffing levels, the number and type of survey deficiencies, and a subset of CMS quality indicator scores from the Nursing Home Compare website.
In studies conducted in the Spanish PHC environment, the need for training and adequacy of staff dimension is highlighted, emphasizing the imbalance between nursing staff and GPs, with poorer figures in nurses.
