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Abstract
Background: Compassion is considered the cornerstone of nursing practices and professionalism. However, a decrease in compassion may increase medical errors and adversely affect patient safety.
Aims: The study was conducted to determine clinical nurses' compassion levels and their tendency to make medical errors, and to find whether their compassion levels affect their tendency to make medical errors.
Methods: A cross-sectional, descriptive and correlational design was used. The study was conducted with 309 nurses working at a university hospital. The study data were collected by using the Compassion Scale and Medical Error Tendency Scale in Nursing.
Results: The nurses' compassion levels were moderate, and their medical error tendency levels were low. The comparison of the mean scores obtained from the Compassion Scale and Medical Error Tendency Scale in Nursing revealed a weak positive significant relationship (p < .001). No statistically significant difference was determined between the mean scores obtained from the Compassion Scale by the participants who made medical errors at least once during their professional life and the mean scores obtained by the participants who did not (p > .05). It was found that the mean score for the mindfulness subscale of the Compassion Scale and the length of service were determined to be the factors that significantly affected the participants' tendency to make medical errors (R = 0.42, R2 = 0.181, F = 3.771, p = .000).
Conclusion: The nurses' tendency to make medical errors decreased as their compassion levels increased, and that compassion was an important predictor of tendency to make medical errors.
背景:同情心被认为是护理实践和专业精神的基石。然而，同情心的减少可能会增加医疗错误，并对患者安全产生不利影响。目的:研究临床护士的同情心水平与医疗差错倾向的关系，探讨护士的同情心水平是否影响其医疗差错倾向。方法:采用横断面、描述性和相关性设计。这项研究是在309名在大学医院工作的护士中进行的。研究数据采用护理同情心量表和医疗差错倾向量表收集。结果:护士的同情心水平中等，医疗差错倾向水平较低。同情心量表与护理医疗差错倾向量表的平均得分比较显示弱正相关(p p > 0.05)。结果发现，同情心量表正念分量表的平均得分和服务年数是影响医疗差错倾向的显著因素(R = 0.42, R2 = 0.181, F = 3.771, p = 0.000)。结论:护士的医疗差错倾向随同情心水平的提高而降低，同情心是医疗差错倾向的重要预测因子。
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Contemporary Nurse is an international peer-reviewed journal designed to increase nursing skills, knowledge and communication, assist in professional development and to enhance educational standards by publishing stimulating, informative and useful articles on a range of issues influencing professional nursing research, teaching and practice.
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Contemporary Nurse publishes original research articles, reviews and discussion papers.
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