Investigation of Patient Safety Culture of Nurses Working in The University Hospital

Aim: This research was planned to assessment nurses’ that works at university hospital attitudes and behaviors towards patient safety culture and perception of patient safety culture.

Method: The study was descriptive and cross-sectional. Random sample of (n=148) nurses was recruited from December 2009 through December 2010 in the Ege University Faculty of Medicine Hospital. Data collection tool as a means of “Hospital Patient Safety Culture Survey” (HGKHA)” was used. Data were analyzed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS version 15.00 for Windows). The obtained data were analyzed for the numerical and percentage distribution, average, standard deviation, t-tests.

Results: It was looked that nurses’ comment about medical mistake/incident reporting, 83.1% of them reported that incident was not written at all units of the last 12 months. In this study, 37.8% of the nurses’ percent (n = 56) the degree of patient safety of works unit is very good, 43.3% (n = 65) is acceptable, 11.5% (n = 17) assessed as weak. In this study, the positive responses HGKHA percent of the general average was found as 39.6 ± 1.39 (min-max: 23.4-64.4).

Conclusion: In the hospital that research was conducted, deficiencies were identified for nurses’ awareness and the patient safety culture.