The Influence of Workload and Work Stress to Patient Safety Attitude on Nurses

Abstract

Background: Nurse is a health worker at health service areas whose role may reduce and avoid errors that are possible to happen in the hospital. Patient safety is one of the important components to increase the health service quality. Most of the errors done by nurses are caused by the high workload. Besides, nurses are also vulnerable toward stress.Research objective: To find out the influence of workload and work stress toward patient safety attitude on nurses in inpatient units.Research method: This research applies quantitative approach with correlational descriptive method. The independent variables are workload and work stress and the dependent variable is patient safety attitude. The population in this research is 149 nurses at inpatient unit in RSUD PanembahanSenopatiBantul. The sampling technique is total sampling with double linier regression analysis.Finding and Discussion: The significance value of workload is 0,000 (p<0,05) and work stress is 0,000 (p<0,05). F-test is 21,588 with significance value is 0,000 (Sig<0,05). The coefficient value of Adjusted R² in this research is 21.8%, while the rest is explained by other variables that are not being researched.Conclusion: 1) Workload influences the patient safety attitude on nurses, 2) Work stress influences the patient safety attitude on nurses, and 3) Workload and work stress simultaneously influences the patient safety attitude in the inpatient units at RSUD PanembahanSenopatiBantul.

Keywords: workload, work stress, patient safety attitude, nurses