CULTURA DE SEGURANÇA DO PACIENTE EM UMA MATERNIDADE NA PERSPECTIVA DE USUÁRIAS E EQUIPE MULTIPROFISSIONAL

• Autor(a) principal: Félix, Roselaine dos Santos
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional Universidade Franciscana
• Texto Completo: http://www.tede.universidadefranciscana.edu.br:8080/handle/UFN-BDTD/622
• topic: Cultura Organizacional. Gestão da Segurança. Maternidade. Participação do Paciente. Segurança do Paciente.; Organizational Culture. Security Management. Maternity. Patient Participation. Patient safety.; Saúde Materno Infantil

In the effort to improve, the quality of health care with emphasis on patient safety and organizational culture assessments many efforts have been put forth worldwide. One of the groups to be investigated consists of the same maternal and childcare that for the sake of make part of a special population, which requires a general and specific care, with the necessity for a multi-professional team action. Therefore, this study had the objective to evaluate the safety culture of the patient in a maternity ward from the perspective of the users and from the multi-professional team. For this purpose, a cross-sectional study was carried out in which data gathering occurred between the months of May and June 2016 at the maternity hospital of a large teaching hospital in the interior of the Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil. The sample was consisted of 352 users (101 pregnant women and 251 postpartum women) and 62 staff members (25 nursing assistants and technicians, 15 residents, 14 nurses and 8 other professionals). A questionnaire previously validated with socio-demographic, both clinical and patient safety already used with the users and the Brazilian version of the Survey Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture, da Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality for professionals were the instruments utilized. All the work made in the elaboration of this essay followed all ethical aspects involving research with human beings. The data was analyzed through descriptive statistics (in absolute and relative frequencies) and also inferential, in which the chi-square test was applied to verify the associations between the patient's safety level, the events reported and the socio-demographic and clinical data that possessed the International goals of patient safety, respectively, in the category of health professionals and its users. It was considered a level of significance of α<0,05. The perception results of users about patient safety showed that the majority (60%) of the users were unaware of the issue, could not identify the risks related to care (82%), were satisfied with care (95%) and made suggestions in two categories: working processes (75%) and structure (10%). Among the associations performed, there was an association between age with the goal 4 of the correct procedures (p=0.03), number of pregnancies with the goals 2 of communication (p=0.03) and 3 related to medicine (p=0.01), type of delivery and Goal 2 (p=0.00), number of medical appointments and goal 1 of the correct identification of patients (p=0.01). With the basis on the evaluations of the dimensions from the instrument used with the professionals, no areas of positive force were identified, although organizational learning and continuous improvement; as well as expectations and actions of supervisors; openness to communication were located in the neutral area, and the others presented potential for improvement, with lower scores for management support dimensions and non-punishing responses to errors. The health team evaluated the degree of safety of the patient in the maternity ward as average (59.7%) and presented 15 suggestions to strengthen the safety culture of the patient in the maternity ward. The results suggest that users and health professionals identified week points of the patient safety culture in the maternity ward. To improve this scenario, some products were elaborated among those a folder and a Manual for the safety of the patient in the maternity ward with orientations for patients, relatives, companions and professionals. There are the necessity of changes to strengthen this culture and those are urgent and a priority, integrating a diversity of organizational actions that compromise managers, professionals and users in the promotion of a safe maternity ward.