SBAR (Situation, Background, Assessment, Recomendation) Communication on Attitude And Nursing Behavior in Improving Patient Safety

Abstract

SBAR (Situation, Backgroud, Assessment, Recomendation) communication is an information tool that provides a structured or systematic method that facilitates communication between health workers. SBAR communication is easy because communication has been systematically structured to report the condition of patients to other health workers so as to improve patient safety by reducing errors that occur during the action. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of SBAR communication on nurses’ attitudes and behavior in improving patient safety. The type of research used was quasi experiment with pre-posttest with control group design, the results of the study were processed by paired sample t test and independent samples t test, SBAR communication instruments using observation, attitude and behavior instruments of nurses using questionnaires. The population in the study of all nurses who served in the inpatient room is ivory 1, ivory 2, flamboyant, dahliah RAA Soewondo Pati Hospital as many as 48 nurses, the sampling technique in the study was a total sampling of 48 nurses. There was a significant difference in nurses’ attitudes after being given SBAR communication training in the intervention group with a p value of 0,000 compared to the control group with a p value of 0.103. There was a significant difference in the nurses’ behavior after being given SBAR communication training in the intervention group with a p value of 0,000 compared to the control group with a p value of 0.198.