Effect of Nurse Empowerment Educational Program on Patient Safety Culture

Running head: NURSING
Nursing
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1NURSING
Selected study: Amiri, M., Khademian, Z., & Nikandish, R. (2018). The effect of nurse
empowerment educational program on patient safety culture: a randomized controlled
trial. BMC medical education, 18(1), 158.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-018-1255-6

2NURSING
Answer 1
Yes.
The aim of this randomised control trial (RCT) is to determine the effect of nursing
empowerment through educational approach on increasing the cultural safety of the adult
patients of the ICU units (Amiri, Khademian & Nikandish, 2018).
The main population studied in this study is nurses and nursing supervisors. The level
of the cultural safety of the nurses will be monitored based on their activities or care plan
procured over the 6 adult patients in the ICU units. Schneider and Whitehead (2013) are of
the opinion that while conducting randomized control trial (RCTs), the selection of the
population must be based on the scope of the study. In this study the culturally safety care of
the nurses will be monitored based on their professionals conduct upon training session and
thus recruitment of the nurses and the adult patients coincides with the scope of the study.
The intervention selected for this study include workshops for two days conducted for
8 hours at a stretch along with education given with the help of posters and distribution of
pamphlets (Amiri, Khademian and Nikandish 2018). It is the rule of the RCTs to select
specific intervention in order to test the efficacy of the interventions with the help of trial
(Hemming et al., 2015).
The comparator used in this study was the control groups of nurses and the
supervisors who did not participated in the workshops. Use of control groups provided the
provision for comparative analysis (Hemming et al., 2015).
The main outcomes that were considered in the study include inproved cultural safety
in the nursing care. However, primary and secondary outcomes were not considered distinctly
in the study and this can be regarded as one of its drawbacks.