Study of the Status of Patient Safety Culture in Employees of Educational and Therapeutic Centers Affiliated to Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences

Patient safety is one of the basic principles of health care and its evaluation and promotion are one of the main goals of the health system development plan in Iran. Therefore, the present study was designed to determine the status of patient safety culture in nursing staff of three hospitals, A and B, Shahrekord and C Borojen hospitals. This was a descriptive-analytical study performed from September to February 2018 and 359 eligible nurses were evaluated based on a multi-stage sampling method based on Patient Safety Culture Questionnaire. The collected data were analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics using SPSS 20 software. The mean age of participants was 23.33 ± 7.79 years. The overall score of patient safety culture was 123.23 ± 16.15 for nurses, with the lowest score being 8.40 ± 1.86 for communication channels as well as feedback and informing others about errors 8.72±2.23 reported. Also, there was no statistically significant difference between different dimensions of patient safety culture and overall score in three hospitals (p> 0.05). Leadership is a key element in prioritizing patient safety. How to respond to mistakes determines the hospital safety culture. To promote a good hospital safety culture, the fear of being blamed for mistakes must be eliminated and the atmosphere of open communication and continuous learning must be implemented in the hospital.