Patient Safety Culture and Attitudes and The Interprofessional Collaboration Among Healthcare Workers in A Government Hospital

The study assessed the correlation between attitude on patient safety and interprofessional collaboration. It further assessed whether the facets of patient safety culture predict interprofessional collaboration in a government hospital in Isulan, Sultan Kudarat during the first quarter of 2019. Findings served as bases for a proposed action plan. The study utilized mixed method; that is, a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods. Under the quantitative method, the researcher used descriptive-correlational and predictive designs. It described the following: patient safety culture, attitudes on patient safety culture among healthcare workers, and interprofessional collaboration. Thematic content analysis was used for the qualitative part, which is to answer the challenges encountered by the healthcare professionals in the attainment of interprofessional collaboration. The patient safety culture among healthcare workers in the hospital is less evident in the following areas: teamwork within units; supervisor/manager expectations and actions promoting patient safety; organizational learning – continuous improvement; management support for patient safety; feedback and communication about error; frequency of events reported; overall perceptions of patient safety; communication openness; teamwork across units; staffing; handoffs and transitions; and, nonpunitive response to error. The attitude on patient safety culture among healthcare professionals is neither present nor absent in the following areas: leadership structure; confidence-assertion; information-sharing; teamwork; stress and fatigue; work values; organizational climate; error/procedural compliance; and, error management. Interprofessional collaboration is manifested most of the time in the following areas: communication, accommodation, and isolation. There is a significant relationship between attitudes on patient safety and interprofessional collaboration in terms of stress and fatigue. Staffing predicts interprofessional collaboration. The top challenges encountered by the healthcare workers in the attainment of interprofessional collaboration are as follows: overload of responsibilities, need of each profession for another to provide, motivational resources, and role ambiguity and role conflict.