Hubungan Persepsi Supervisi dengan Perilaku Perawat dalam Menerapkan Patient Safety di Instalasi Rawat Inap RSUD Tugurejo

Abstract

Patient safety is a basic component in providing high-quality health services. With this regard, nursing services play an important role in improving the quality and safety of patients in the hospital. The nurses’ behaviors of patient safety practices can be improved through the supervision activities. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between the nurses’ perception of supervision and nurses’ behaviors in implementing the patient safety program at the inpatient wards of Tugurejo General Public Hospital. This study was a quantitative research with a descriptive correlation method. A proportional random sampling was employed to take the samples and resulted in 129 nurses. The data were collected using questionnaires and analyzed using a univariate analysis and a bivariate analysis with the chi-square test. The results showed that the majority of respondents were women (70.5%), aged of 26-35 (62.0%), hold a Diploma III of nursing (51.2%), had attended training (56.6%) and were involved as members of the patient safety team (15.5%). Furthermore, more than half of the respondents rated the supervision in good category (52,7%), and the respondents had good behaviors in implementing the patient safety program (51.9%). The result of bivariate analysis obtained a p-value of 0.000, indicating that there was a relationship between nurses’ perception of supervision and nurses’ behaviors in implementing the patient safety program. Based on the findings, it is suggested that the hospital management improves the supervision activities by providing guidance and evaluation. In addition, the nurses need to improve their behaviors to reduce the risk of infection by washing hands after they make contact with the patients.