Awareness Regarding International Patient Safety Goals Among the Nurses of Private Hospital, Lahore
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Background: Nurses play a central role in implementing the International Patient Safety Goals, but knowledge gaps may limit consistent application of patient-identification, communication, medication-safety, infection-prevention, surgical-safety, and fall-prevention practices. Objective: To assess changes in nurses’ knowledge of the International Patient Safety Goals following a structured departmental educational intervention. Methods: A single-group pretest–post-test educational intervention study was conducted among 119 registered nurses at Ittefaq Hospital, Lahore. Participants completed a 26-item knowledge questionnaire before receiving teaching, demonstration, and an educational pamphlet and completed the same questionnaire approximately one month later. Frequencies, percentages, and absolute percentage-point changes were calculated. Results: The mean participant age was 26.65 ± 2.43 years, and 114 (95.8%) participants were women. Correct identification of the goal concerning high-alert medication safety increased from 26.9% to 91.6%, healthcare-associated infection prevention from 36.1% to 97.5%, fall-harm prevention from 42.0% to 92.4%, and the requirement for at least two patient identifiers from 51.3% to 99.2%. Recognition of the five moments for hand hygiene increased from 36.1% to 77.3%. However, selection of 20–30 seconds as the duration for alcohol-based hand rubbing decreased from 46.2% to 31.1%. Conclusion: Nurses demonstrated higher follow-up knowledge for most assessed patient-safety topics after the educational intervention. Continuing education should be accompanied by competency assessment and practice-based monitoring because questionnaire knowledge alone does not establish clinical compliance or improved patient outcomes
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