Nurses’ attitudes toward quality improvement in hospitals: Implications for nursing management systems

Cris Adolfo; Abdulrhman Albougami; Mark Roque; Joseph Almazan

doi:10.18502/npt.v8i3.5935

Cris Adolfo Department of Nursing, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Majmaah University, Majmaah, Saudi Arabia
Abdulrhman Albougami Department of Nursing, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Majmaah University, Majmaah, Saudi Arabia
Mark Roque Department ofMaternity and Childhood, College of Nursing, Taibah University, Madina, Saudi Arabia
Joseph Almazan Department ofMedicine, School of Medicine, Nazarbayev University, Nursultan, Kazakhstan

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18502/npt.v8i3.5935

Keywords: attitudes; health care; nursing management; quality improvement

Abstract

Background & Aim: Quality improvement in hospitals is a systematically widely used framework that improves patient care quality delivered by health care professionals. This study assessed the attitude of nurses toward Quality Improvement.

Methods & Materials: A quantitative research approach was used. A total of 361 nurses working in two government hospitals and two private hospitals in the Philippines were selected using convenience sampling. The data collected using a self-administered questionnaire was started in March-April 2019. To identify the association between nurse demographic characteristics and perceived quality improvement, an independent sample t-test, a one-way analysis of variance with a post-hoc Tukey HSD test, and a Pearson’s product-moment correlation were conducted using SPSS.

Results: Nurses have high positive quality improvement attitude scores. The age, salary, and hospital type, influence quality improvement attitude scores.

Conclusion: Nurses have a positive attitude towards qualitative improvement. In addition, nurses’ age, salary, and public hospitals' work have a positive qualitative improvement than nurses working in private hospitals.