Volume 3,Issue 8
The Current Status of Work Engagement of Nurses in the Emergency Department of Tertiary Non-Public Hospitals in Jiangsu Province and Its Impact on Patient Safety Perception
Objective: To investigate the current status of work engagement of emergency nurses in tertiary non-public hospitals in Jiangsu Province, analyze its influencing factors and the role of work engagement on perception of patient safety, so as to provide a basis for nursing managers to formulate strategies, stabilize the nursing team, and improve patient safety guarantee. Methods: A convenience sampling method was used to select 189 nurses from the emergency departments of six tertiary non-public hospitals in Jiangsu Province as research subjects from September 2024 to December 2024. The general information scale, Chinese version of Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES), Organizational Justice Scale, and Nurse Version of Patient Safety Perception Scale were used for the questionnaire survey. SPSS 22.0 was used for data statistics, including descriptive analysis, t-test, analysis of variance, correlation analysis, and multiple linear regression analysis. Results: The UWES score of emergency nurses in tertiary non-public hospitals in Jiangsu Province was 61.71 ± 18.74, and the score of the Patient Safety Perception Scale was 82.35 ± 14.62. Work engagement was significantly positively correlated with perception of patient safety (r = 0.412, P < 0.001). Multiple linear regression showed that working years, presence or absence of children, physical condition, monthly income, frequency of night shifts, promotion requirements and organizational justice were the influencing factors of work engagement (P < 0.05), while the “vigor” and “absorption” dimensions of work engagement were positive predictive factors of perception of patient safety (P < 0.05). Conclusion: The level of work engagement of emergency nurses in tertiary non-public hospitals in Jiangsu Province is lower than that in public hospitals of the same level, and work engagement has a positive impact on perception of patient safety. Nursing managers need to optimize management strategies targeting to improve nurses’ work engagement, thereby ensuring patient safety.
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