NURSE MANAGER PERCEPTIONS OF PATIENT SAFETY STRATEGY IMPLEMENTATION
Objective: to describe the patient safety strategy implantation process through the perspective of nurse managers.
Method: a qualitative descriptive-exploratory approach, performed with 72 nurse managers from four public university hospitals in Paraná. The data were collected through a recorded interview, guided by the question: “Tell me about your experience regarding the process of implantation of patient safety strategies?” and was submitted for content, thematic and modality analysis.
Results: categories resulting from the analysis: Understanding the trajectory of patient safety strategy implantation; Multiple phases of patient safety strategy implantation; and Ambiguous feelings related to patient safety strategy implantation.
Conclusion: in the investigated institutions, despite the process of patient safety strategy implantation being perceived in a contradictory way by the participants, they expressed feelings of satisfaction.
DESCRIPTORS:
Nursing; Patient safety; Security management; Perception; Risk management.