Aim: This study had performed to determine the relationship between level of coping with stress and medical malpractice tendency in nurses.
Method: The sample of the descriptive and analytical study was consisted of 197 nurses who worked in a training and research hospital between February and March 2018 and volunteered to participate in the study. The data were collected by ”Nurse Information Form”,”Ways of Coping Determination of the Relationship Between Level of Coping with Stress and Medical Malpractice Tendency in Nurses Inventory (WCI)”, “Medical Malpractice Tendency in Nursing Scale (MMTNS)”. In the evaluation of the data, descriptive statistics, Mann-Whitney U Test and Spearman’s Correlation Test were used.
Findings: Nurses’ mean scores of WCI were 1.84±0.43 for self-confident approach, 1.80±0.40 for optimistic approach, 1.27±0.47 for helpless approach, 1.27±0.54 for submissive approach and social support seeking approach 1.79±0.42. The mean scores of nurses from the MMTNS were 4.65±0.36 for drug and transfusion applications, 4.52±0.48 for fall prevention, 4.47±0.44 for infection prevention, 4.31±0.53 for patient monitoring and material device safety, and 4.11±0.69 for communication. The difference between the mean scores of the nurses who were educated about medical errors (9.33±1.91) and not (8.48±2.14) was statistically significant (p<0.05). It was determined that there was a relationship between medical malpractice tendency and self confidence coping style of nurses (p<0.05).
Conclusion: It was determined that nurses used problem-focused coping ways and their medical malpractice tendency was low.
Primary Language | Turkish |
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Subjects | Health Care Administration |
Journal Section | Research Article |
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Publication Date | December 31, 2019 |
Acceptance Date | December 24, 2019 |
Published in Issue | Year 2019 Volume: 6 Issue: 4 |