Nursing Handover Quality and Safety Behaviors of Nurses in the Tertiary Hospital, the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste
Keywords:
Nurses, Nursing handover quality, Safety behaviors, Tertiary hospitalAbstract
Nursing handover is one of the essential communication processes for transferring patients’ health conditions and information to another group of healthcare professionals. This descriptive correlation study aimed to examine the quality of nursing handover and safety behaviors, and the relationship between nursing handover quality and safety behaviors of nurses in the National Guido Valadares Hospital, Timor-Leste. Two hundred and ten participants were randomly selected from 12 units at the National Guido Valadares Hospital. The research instruments included a demographic data form developed by the researcher, the Handover Evaluation Scale (HES), and the Safety Behavior Scale (SBS), which were translated into the Timor-Leste language by the researcher following Brislin’s guidelines. The Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of the HES and SBS were .80 and .94, respectively. Descriptive statistics and Spearman's rank correlation were used to analyze the data.
The results revealed that nurses perceived nursing handover quality at a high level (M = 75.08, SD = 4.35) and perceived safety behaviors at a high level (M = 52.42, SD = 5.86). Nursing handover quality was significantly moderately correlated with safety behaviors (rs = .36, p < 0.01).
The findings of this study could be beneficial for nursing leaders and managers in maintaining nursing handover quality and nurses' safety behaviors in the National Guido Valadares Hospital, Timor-Leste, and protect patients from harm and injuries.
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