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Volume 2, Issue 5 (Suppl) Clin Pediatr, an open access journal
ISSN: 2572-0775 Pediatric Nursing 2017
September 04-05, 2017
September 04-05, 2017 | Edinburgh, Scotland
Pediatric Nursing & Healthcare
28th International Conference on
Nurses’ response to parents’ speaking-up efforts to ensure their hospitalized child’s safety: An attribution
theory perspective
Sondos Bsharat1 and Anat Drach-Zahavy2
1HaEmek Medical Center, Israel
2Haifa University, Israel
Background: Participation of parents in maintaining their child’s safety is shown to reduce the incidence of and risk of clinical errors.
Unless nurses respond appropriately to parents’ safety alerts, this potential source of support could diminish.
Aim: Aim of this study is to understand how attribution processes (control and stability), which the nurse attributes to parental
involvement in maintaining child safety, determine the nurse’s response to a safety alert.
Design: A 2 (controllability: high vs. low) × 2 (consistency: high vs. low) factorial design.
Methods: Data were collected during the period 2013–2014 in pediatric wards. Four variants of scenarios were created corresponding
to the different combinations of these variables. A total of 126 nurses read a scenario and completed self-report questionnaires
measuring their response to the parent’s safety alert. Additional data were collected about the manipulation check, safety norms in
the ward, and demographic variables. Data were analyzed using analysis of variance.
Findings: Results showed a main effect of stability, and a significant two-way interaction effect of stability and controllability, on a
nurse’s tendency to help the parent and fix the safety problem. Nurses who attributed lower controllability and lower stability to the
parent’s behavior tended to help the parent more than in the other three conditions. Further, safety norms were significantly related
to nurses’ response.
Conclusion: These findings contribute to the understanding of antecedents that affect nurses’ responses to parents’ speaking-up
initiatives: whether nurses will reject or heed the alert. Theoretical and practical implications for promoting parents’ engagement in
their safety are discussed.
Biography
Sondos Bsharat is a PICU Nurse, Clinical and CPR Instructor, Parental Guide on various topics. Her research focuses on “The issue of parents' participation in the
treatment of their hospitalized child, particularly in maintaining the child's safety”.
Sondos Bsharat et al., Clin Pediatr 2017, 2:5(Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2572-0775-C1-005