TY - JOUR
TI - Selected factors determining assessment of nursing care quality in acute hospitals. Results of RN4CAST project
AU - Kózka, Maria
AU - Gabryś, Teresa
AU - Brzyski, Piotr
AU - Ogarek, Maria
AU - Cisek, Maria
AU - Przewoźniak, Lucyna
AU - Ksykiewicz-Dorota, Anna
AU - Gajda, Krzysztof
AU - Brzostek, Tomasz
TI - Selected factors determining assessment of nursing care quality in acute hospitals. Results of RN4CAST project
AB - 
	Introduction. The essence of nursing care is to improve treatment results, patient satisfaction, and decrease treatment costs.
	Aim. Presenting the factors determining the assessment of nursing care quality in acute hospitals.
	Material and method. The study included 2605 nurses working in 30 hospitals in Poland. The Work Environment Scale and an opinion questionnaire were used to collect the data. The analysis based on logistic regression model, generalised estimating equations, χ² test, and Mann-Whitney test.
	Results. Three in every four respondents evaluated the quality of nursing care as good. The assessment depended on the conditions of work, autonomy in providing care, patient information flow, patient safety, occurrence of adverse events, discussion of mistakes, nurse workload, potential for education, and flexible working time.
	Conclusion. The factors significantly influencing the assessment of nursing care quality are the working environment, care monitoring and management.
	
VL - 2012
IS - Volume  10, Issue 4
PY - 2013
SN - 1731-7398
C1 - 2084-2627
SP - 30
EP - 40
DO - 10.4467/20842627OZ.13.029.1177
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/zdrowie-publiczne-i-zarzadzanie/article/wybrane-czynniki-determinujace-ocene-jakosci-opieki-pielegniarskiej-w-szpitalach-pelniacych-staly-dyzur-wyniki-projektu-rn4cast
KW - adverse events
KW - management
KW - nurses
KW - quality of care
KW - working environment
KW - workload