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Abstract

Evaluation of patients’ safety competence and practices for health care professionals is deemed necessary to determine the key areas that need further improvement. It is vital to understand nurses’ perspectives on patients’ safety competence and practices in order to have an advance basis on what particular aspect to improve on patients’ safety in the clinical setting.

In this descriptive correlational design, clinical ward nurses of Holy Name University Medical Center Inc. (HNUMCI) were asked to complete the Health Professional Education in Patient Safety Survey. Eighty-eight percent (30 of 34) of the nurses were randomly selected as the respondents.

Responses were favorable, with nurses revealed a high level of competence while consistently practicing the patients’ safety dimensions in clinical areas. The Clinical Safety got the highest mean scores on patients’ competence and practices among respondents. In addition, significant differences were revealed on the competence of the respondents in terms of the employment status. The establishment of similarity on the mean score of competency and practices based on the demographic profile has further established congruence on the importance of patients' safety in the clinical settings.

College of Health Sciences Graduate Studies Master of Arts in Nursing with specialization in Nursing Administration and Supervision

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