nurses’ attitudes toward quality improvement in hospitals: implications for nursing management systems

Background & 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 & 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’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’ age, salary, and public hospitals' work have a positive qualitative improvement than nurses working in private hospitals.