Rev Esc Enferm USP. 2025 Jul 11;59:e20240407. doi: 10.1590/1980-220X-REEUSP-2024-0407en. eCollection 2025.
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE: To analyze the attitudes of nursing professionals towards structural and process factors that may predispose to adverse events in neonatal and pediatric intensive care units.
METHOD: Cross-sectional study carried out in two public hospitals in Northeast Brazil in 2019. A sociodemographic/professional questionnaire and the Adverse Events Predisposition Scale were applied to 100 nursing professionals. The tests ANOVA, Tukey and of Student’s t were used to compare the means of the ideal and real scales, according to the sociodemographic variables, adopting p < 0.05.
RESULTS: Most professionals demonstrated low and medium perception of structure and process factors. A statistically significant association was found in the process dimension with: age group of 40-49 years, neonatal unit/hospital 2, and relation with a cooperative.
CONCLUSION: Nursing professionals in neonatal/pediatric intensive care units have low and medium perception of factors predisposing to adverse events, which deserves investment from leaders to avoid that inadequate perceptions result in harm to patients.
PMID:40644518 | DOI:10.1590/1980-220X-REEUSP-2024-0407en
