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<Articles JournalTitle="Nursing Practice Today">
  <Article>
    <Journal>
      <PublisherName>Tehran University of Medical Sciences</PublisherName>
      <JournalTitle>Nursing Practice Today</JournalTitle>
      <Issn>2383-1154</Issn>
      <Volume>8</Volume>
      <Issue>3</Issue>
      <PubDate PubStatus="epublish">
        <Year>2021</Year>
        <Month>02</Month>
        <Day>14</Day>
      </PubDate>
    </Journal>
    <title locale="en_US">Nurses&#x2019; attitudes toward quality improvement in hospitals: Implications for nursing management systems</title>
    <FirstPage>206</FirstPage>
    <LastPage>215</LastPage>
    <AuthorList>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Cris</FirstName>
        <LastName>Adolfo</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Nursing, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Majmaah University, Majmaah, Saudi Arabia</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Abdulrhman</FirstName>
        <LastName>Albougami</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Nursing, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Majmaah University, Majmaah, Saudi Arabia</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Mark</FirstName>
        <LastName>Roque</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Maternity and Childhood, College of Nursing, Taibah University, Madina, Saudi Arabia</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Joseph</FirstName>
        <LastName>Almazan</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Nazarbayev University, Nursultan, Kazakhstan</affiliation>
      </Author>
    </AuthorList>
    <History>
      <PubDate PubStatus="received">
        <Year>2020</Year>
        <Month>07</Month>
        <Day>16</Day>
      </PubDate>
      <PubDate PubStatus="accepted">
        <Year>2020</Year>
        <Month>10</Month>
        <Day>11</Day>
      </PubDate>
    </History>
    <abstract locale="en_US">Background &amp; Aim: Quality improvement in hospitals is a systematically widely used framework that improves patient care quality delivered by health care professionals. This study assessed the attitude of nurses toward Quality Improvement.
Methods &amp; Materials: A quantitative research approach was used. A total of 361 nurses working in two government hospitals and two private hospitals in the Philippines were selected using convenience sampling. The data collected using a self-administered questionnaire was started in March-April 2019. To identify the association between nurse demographic characteristics and perceived quality improvement, an independent sample t-test, a one-way analysis of variance with a post-hoc Tukey HSD test, and a Pearson&#x2019;s product-moment correlation were conducted using SPSS.
Results: Nurses have high positive quality improvement attitude scores. The age, salary, and hospital type, influence quality improvement attitude scores.
Conclusion: Nurses have a positive attitude towards qualitative improvement. In addition, nurses&#x2019; age, salary, and public hospitals' work have a positive qualitative improvement than nurses working in private hospitals.</abstract>
    <web_url>https://npt.tums.ac.ir/index.php/npt/article/view/1182</web_url>
    <pdf_url>https://npt.tums.ac.ir/index.php/npt/article/download/1182/488</pdf_url>
  </Article>
</Articles>
