%0 Journal Article
%T Nurses¡¯ Safety Motivation: Examining Predictors of Nurses¡¯ Willingness to Report Medication Errors
%A Amalia Gedney-Lose
%A Amany Farag
%A Daniel Lose
%J Western Journal of Nursing Research
%@ 1552-8456
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0193945918815462
%X Medication errors are common in health care settings. Safety motivation, such as willingness to report error, is needed to contain medication errors. Limited evidence exists about measures to enforce nurses¡¯ safety motivation. The purpose of this study was to test a proposed model explaining the mechanism by which organizational and social factors influence nurses¡¯ safety motivation. Survey for this cross-sectional study was mailed to a random sample of 500 acute care nurses. Data collection started in January 2014 and lasted 6 months. Path analysis results showed a good fitting final model with 15% of explained variance on nurses¡¯ safety motivation. Safety climate dimensions of error feedback (¦Â = .38, p £¿ .00) and nonpunitive response to errors (¦Â = .22, p = .01) significantly predicted the outcome. There is a need for both organizational and social factors to motivate nurses to report errors. Leadership practices emphasizing safety as a priority is needed to enhance nurses¡¯ safety motivation
%K leadership
%K safety climate
%K organizational trust
%K medication error reporting
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0193945918815462