RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The impact of nursing practice environments on patient safety culture in primary health care: a scoping review protocol
JF BJGP Open
JO BJGP Open
FD Royal College of General Practitioners
SP BJGPO.2023.0032
DO 10.3399/BJGPO.2023.0032
VO 7
IS 3
A1 Pereira, Soraia Cristina de Abreu
A1 Ribeiro, Olga Maria Pimenta Lopes
A1 Fassarella, Cintia Silva
A1 Santos, Eduardo José Ferreira
YR 2023
UL http://bjgpopen.org/content/7/3/BJGPO.2023.0032.abstract
AB Background Patient safety is a key priority for healthcare organisations. It impacts directly on patient health and wellbeing. The increasing complexity of current healthcare settings, which are associated with high work demands and increasingly stressful professional practice environments, contributes to an increased likelihood of errors and adverse events. Primary health care, given its comprehensiveness of care, makes up a large proportion of the care delivered to the population.Aim To map the knowledge about the impact that nursing practice environments have on safety culture in the primary healthcare setting. This knowledge is essential for a more effective and appropriate understanding of this phenomenon and to enable the definition of strategies that can promote the provision of safer care to the population.Design & setting A scoping review will be conducted based on the method proposed by the JBI, and the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR) will be used.Method Study selection, data extraction, and synthesis will be performed by two independent reviewers. Based on the Population (or participants), Concept, and Context (PCC) framework, this scoping review will consider studies that address nurses' practice environment and patient safety culture in primary health care. The review will consider all studies, published or unpublished, from 2002 to the present.Conclusion The results from this scoping review are expected to provide an overview of the importance of the nursing practice environments on patient safety culture, which will be crucial to define an appropriate range of strategies to promote the delivery of the safest health care to the population.