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Assessment Of Critical Care Nurses Knowledge and Practice Regarding Patient Safety in Intensive Care Units

Back ground: Patient safety is an essential and vital element in good nursing care which goals are patient identification, Communication between caregivers, safety of use of medication, prevention of infection, prevention of falls, prevention of pressure ulcers, prevention of wrong site, incorrect procedure, wrong person surgery, reduction of damage associated with clinical alarm systems Aim: this study was carried out to identify nursing knowledge and practice regarding patient safety in intensive care units .Methods: descriptive research design was used. Setting: Assiut University Hospital and Elmabara Hospital and convenient sample of 100 nurse working in the above mentioned setting, data was collected by utilizingTool1:Nurses'knowledge questionnaire, Tool II: Observation checklist to assess nurses' practice. Results: Most of nurses were aware of infection prevention and patient identification (0.98 ± 0.14,1.51 ± 0.61) respectively,64.0% of nurses had inadequate practice about all items of patient safety . Conclusion: The study sample showed about (38.0%) of nurses had good level of knowledge and nearly one-fourth (26.0%) of nurses had poor level of knowledge and about two -thirds of them had inadequate practice about patient safety Recommendation : Providing critical care nurses training courses regarding patient safety