Korean J Health Promot.  2021 Mar;21(1):37-43. 10.15384/kjhp.2021.21.1.37.

Impact of Nursing Work Environment on Nurses’ Perception of Just Culture

• Lee GS
• Park JY

• KMID: 2514112
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.15384/kjhp.2021.21.1.37

Abstract

Background
The purpose of this study is to identify the factors influencing nurses' perception of just culture, and to provide basic data for the establishment of just culture.
Methods
A questionnaire survey was conducted from April 8, 2020 to April 23, 2020 for 168 nurses at hospital in Seoul. The research tools were Petschonek’s JCAT, modified by the researchers and Korean version of practice environment scale of nursing work index (K-PES-NWI).
Results
The average age of the participants was 30.5 years, and total clinical career was 7.10 years. The perception of nursing work environment and just culture perception were 2.91±0.50 out of 5 and 4.91±0.72 out of 7, respectively. Through regression analysis with 33.0% of accountability, it was found that the perception of just culture was associated with nursing work environment (β=0.726, P<0.001).
Conclusions
Study findings suggest that intervention for the improvement of nursing work environment can be effective to increase the perception of just culture, additionally, the program to improve just culture perception should be developed and applied, and verify its effectiveness.

Keyword

Work; Environment; Culture; Patient safety; Nurses

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