EVALUATION OF PATIENT SAFETY CULTURE IN A MATERNITY OF NATAL / RN MUNICIPALITY
Patient safety. Safety culture. Obstetrical services.
The concern with patient safety is a topic of growing relevance in the world and in Brazil, assuming a privileged space in the health services and showing the importance of these to create among their professionals and managers a culture of security where all assume responsibilities reducing the occurrence of adverse events and improving the quality of care provided. It is perceived that there are still many challenges to be overcome and consequently immediate interventions are required to make care safer at all levels of health care. With regard to obstetric services, characterized as services providing maternal and neonatal care, the importance of working to achieve safe care stems from a reality that still needs to advance in the quality of safety in patient care, since it is perceived that many bstetrical services still do not have an established safety culture. In view of the above, the research is guided by the following question: Is there a culture of patient safety in obstetric services in the municipality of Natal? In order to answer this question, the objective is to evaluate the safety culture of the professionals in the obstetrical service in the city of Natal, to measure the safety culture through a validated instrument, to analyze the professionals' understanding of patient safety and to describe their perception about the impact of your work on patient safety. This is a descriptive and evaluative research that will be developed through the collection of data in an obstetrical service in the months of May to July 2018, using the instrument already validated entitled Research on Patient Safety in Hospitals (HSOPSC), which will evaluate the safety culture of professionals involved with care. After the data collection will be performed the quantitative analysis of the data using the statistical analysis program SPSS version 20.0 and for qualitative analysis will be used the IRAMUTEQ software. The research will follow all the recommendations and ethical precepts of Resolution No. 466 of December 12, 2012 of the National Health Council (CNS), which deals with the ethical procedures in research with human beings with presentation to the participants of the Free Consent Term and Clarified (TCLE). Therefore, at the end of the study, it is proposed to contribute to the strengthening of the patient safety culture, sensitizing the managers and professionals of the service, as well as producing information to support the planning of actions that contribute to the prevention of adverse events and contribute for the opening of the Patient Safety Center in said service. Thus, the paper intends to structure its results in the publication of articles that will deal with the professionals' perceptions about adverse events in the obstetric service, analysis of the safety culture of the patient in the obstetrical service and report of experience on the implantation of the safety nucleus of the patient in a maternity home in Natal.