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. 2019 Dec 31;20:3. doi: 10.1186/s12913-019-4781-y

Table 3.

Practical solutions to improve the quality of clinical nursing services

Solution Significance
Mean (SD) Frequency (Percent)
Category 1: Enhancing Qualifications
 1. Revise the way of attracting students 4.62 (0.83) 92.4%
 2. Revision of nursing education curriculum 4.15 (0.80) 83%
 3. Comprehensive exam 4.75 (0.50) 95%
 4. Conducting registered nurse program 4.53 (0.76) 90.6%
 5. Strengthen strategies to absorb nurses 4.40 (0.72) 88%
Mean 4.52 (0.33) 90.4%
Category 2: Enhancing Competency
 1. Empowering of nursing staff 4.53 (0.56) 90.6%
 2. Short courses in accordance with the new requirements 4.28 (0.81) 85.6%
 3. Change the type of assessments 4.37 (0.60) 87.4%
 4. Change the organizational climate 4.56 (0.54) 93%
 5. More serious attention to mentorship method 4.18 (0.78) 83.6%
Mean 4.40 (0.46) 88%
Category 3: Improvement of organizational communication
 1. Develop communication policy and procedure 3.96 (0.73) 79.2%
 2. Create a culture of teamwork 4.46 (0.50) 89.2%
 3. Joint educational and research training courses 4.09 (0.73) 81.8%
 4. Modification of the method of work shifts change 4.06 (0.71) 81.2%
Mean 4.14 (0.46) 82.8%
Category 4: Enhancing Performance
 1. Strengthen the holistic care 4.53 (0.46) 90.6%
 2. Emphasis on the elimination of irrelevant duties 4.46 (0.71) 89.2%
 3. Strengthen patient education 4.31 (0.69) 86.2%
Mean 4.13 (0.43) 88.6%
Category 5: The use of protocols, guidelines and policies
 1. Update record and report instructions in nursing 4.40 (0.71) 88%
 2. Provide a valid international checklist to assess, prevent and improve complications of treatment 4.12 (0.83) 82.4%
 3. Create protocols on patient assessment 4.15 (1.01) 83%
 4. Create policy for patients decision making and self-care 4.34 (0.78) 86.8%
 5. Create assessment tools for monitoring documents 4.15 (0.76) 83%
 6. Design of applicable protocols for patient admission 4.09 (0.92) 81.8%
Mean 4.21 (0.59) 84.2%
Category 6: Creating a safety culture
 1. Enhancing skills of nursing staff regarding risk management and patient safety 4.18 (0.64) 83.6%
 2. Creating a culture of medical errors reporting 4.53 (0.62) 90.6%
 3. Designing an operational protocol for risk recording 4.37 (0.94) 87.4%
Mean 4.36 (0.51) 87.2%
Category 7: Promoting cultural and supportive factors
 1. Enhancing motivation among nurses 4.68 (0.59) 93.6%
 2. Improving knowledge and attitudes of nursing managers to provide professional nursing services 4.65 (0.48) 93%
 3. Holistic View health system strengthening 4.59 (0.49) 91.8%
 4. Creating an appropriate context for the supportive role of nurses 4.43 (0.61) 88.6%
 5. Strengthening the patient-centered culture 4.31 (0.85) 82.6%
 6. Infrastructuring for patients rights as well as follow-up process of created problems 4.56 (0.71) 91.2%
 7. Real implementation of the provisions of the Charter of Patients’ Rights 4.43 (0.71) 88.6%
 8. Applying professional codes of ethics 4.56 (0.61) 91.2%
Mean 4.53 (0.42) 90.6%
Category 8: Improving the organizational structure
 1. Efficient and continious monitoring system for nursing 4.71 (0.63) 94.2%
 2. Staffing according to workload 4.75 (0.43) 95%
 3. Moralists and specialization in the selection of nursing managers 4.81 (0.38) 96.2%
Mean 4.76 (0.30) 95.2%