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Abstract
Introduction
Patient safety culture and nurses' voice behavior have critical importance in healthcare settings because they influence the quality of care. Therefore, it is important to determine nurses' voice behaviors regarding patient safety.
Aims
In this study, it was aimed to determine nurses' perceptions of patient safety culture and voice behavior, the relationship between these two variables, and predictors of voice behavior.
Methods
A descriptive and correlational study. The study was conducted using convenience sampling method between September 2022 and March 2023 with a total of 753 nurses in all units (except managers) of two public university hospitals in Türkiye (n = 753). The data were collected using the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture and the Employee Voice Scale. Multivariate analyses included hierarchical linear regression.
Results
A moderate and positive significant correlation was found between the positive response total mean score of the patient safety culture and the total employee voice score. In addition, it was determined that the total patient safety culture score, feedback about errors and openness in communication from the patient safety culture sub-dimensions, shift work, and education status were the variables that significantly determined the voice behaviors of nurses.
Conclusion
The study empirically demonstrates that it is necessary to improve the perception of patient safety culture among nurses and hospital administrators, especially the perception of nonpunitive responses to errors, to increase nurses' voice behaviors.
期刊介绍:
The Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice aims to promote the evaluation and development of clinical practice across medicine, nursing and the allied health professions. All aspects of health services research and public health policy analysis and debate are of interest to the Journal whether studied from a population-based or individual patient-centred perspective. Of particular interest to the Journal are submissions on all aspects of clinical effectiveness and efficiency including evidence-based medicine, clinical practice guidelines, clinical decision making, clinical services organisation, implementation and delivery, health economic evaluation, health process and outcome measurement and new or improved methods (conceptual and statistical) for systematic inquiry into clinical practice. Papers may take a classical quantitative or qualitative approach to investigation (or may utilise both techniques) or may take the form of learned essays, structured/systematic reviews and critiques.