The Relationship between Patient Safety Friendly Hospital Standards and Nurses' Safety Performance during Corona Pandemic

 Safe operation of staff, especially nurses and the work environment have a decisive role in the quality and safety of patient care. The outbreak of the corona pandemic has led to a high degree of uncertainty and has filled health systems with a variety of challenges. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate the relationship between patient safety friendly hospital standards and nurses' safety performance during the corona pandemic in Tehran in 2020.

 The present study is a cross-sectional descriptive-correlational study that was performed on 266 nurses of Imam Khomeini Hospital in Tehran who met the inclusion criteria by stratified random sampling. The data collection tool was a questionnaire consisting of three parts including nurses' demographic information, patient safety friendly standards of Parvizi et al. And Parviz et al. Frequency distribution tables, central indices (mean and median) and dispersion indices (variance and standard deviation) were used to describe the data. Pearson correlation test was used to evaluate the correlation between patient safety friendly standards and nurses' safety performance using SPSS 16 software.

 The mean and standard deviation of all patient safety friendly hospital standards from the perspective of the nurses was 97.35±16.59. The mean and standard deviation of nurses' safety performance was 59.36±10.37. Both variables were in the middle level. In addition, there was a positive and significant correlation between patient safety friendly hospital standards and all its dimensions with safety performance (r=0.843, P<0.001).

Ethical Considerations:

 This article is the result of a master of sciences nursing dissertation at Tehran University of Medical Sciences. During the research process, the ethical principles in research with human subjects were observed based on the guidelines of the Islamic Republic of Iran/ including obtaining informed consent to participate in the research.

 Therefore, according to the results of this study, it seems that the review of strategies including purposeful and evidence-based management of organizational resources with a comprehensive approach including barriers to achieving safety dimensions, institutionalizing patient culture, safety and promoting safety atmosphere, focus on the index Patient safety measures are needed in hospitals.