Patient safety at samu: diagnosis to propose a project to promote health actions
International Journal of Development Research
Patient safety at samu: diagnosis to propose a project to promote health actions
Received 22nd July, 2019; Received in revised form 29th August, 2019; Accepted 03rd September, 2019; Published online 23rd October, 2019
Copyright © 2019, Vanessa Jaqueline Baptista et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Objective: To identify the attitudes that evidence the culture of patient safety by professionals of a team of Mobile Emergency Service in the prehospital context. Method: Quantitative, descriptive and cross-sectional study, through the application of the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire, validated and adapted to the Brazilian culture to 105 professionals who worked in a Mobile Emergency Service. Results: It was observed a prevalence of female professionals (64.8%), being nursing technicians (30.5%), ambulance drivers (21.9) and registered nurses (17.1%), the mean age of the participants was 34.9 years (SD ± 8.9 years), the mean working period at SAMU was 32.7 months (SD ± 42.8 months), and were employed directly to work in ambulances. Most of the answers were positive regarding patient safety in unit ofMobile Emergency Service under study. Conclusion: There is a need to implement the patient safety program in Mobile Emergency Service - Norte Novo, even with the discrepancy of results between the blocks evaluated.
