THE RELATIONSHIP OF NURSES’ KNOWLEDGE AND NURSES’ ATTITUDES ABOUTTHE IMPLEMENTATIONOF PATIENT SAFETY AT GENERAL INPATIENT INSTALATION IN RSUD JOMBANG

Abstract

The role of nurses inpatient safety programs still requires special attention from hospital management.Torealize high quality and safety carebased on patient safety programs, nurses requires knowledge, skills, andattitudes as well as a variety of competencies. The purpose of this research is to determine the relationshipof nurses’ knowledge and nurses’ attitudes as the implementation of patient safety at general inpatientinstalationinRSUD Jombang in 2013. The researcher uses research design of analytic correlation with crosssectionalapproach. The number of population consists of 132 nurses workingat general inpatient instalationinRSUD Jombang, and its sample consists of 99 nurses which are treated by using “proportionate random samplingtechnique”. The independent variable in this research is the nurses' knowledge, while the dependent variable isthe nurses’ attitudes. The researcher uses data collection byusinginstruments such as questionnaires, where asthe data analysis using Chi Square. The results show that the knowledge of nurses about patient safety lesscategorized by 51.5% and 48.5% considered good. As for the attitude of nurses on patient safetyimplementation categorized by 53.5% positive and 46.5% negative categorized. Chi Square test of twovariables is obtained value ρ = 0.032 The conclusion of this researchindicates that there is a significant relationshipof nurses’ knowledge and nurses' attitudes in the implementation of patient safety atgeneral inpatient instalationinRSUD Jombang 2013.Keywords: knowledge, attitudes, patient, safety