Patient Safety Culture Dimensions as Perceived by Nurses

Patient safety is a global concept that every healthcare professional must hold at the very heart of what they do. Shared culture of patient safety should be of primary significance and there is resolute need for theory lead research approaches for safety culture in health care organizations. The main objective of this research was to investigate staff nurses’ understanding of patient safety culture in governmental hospitals in the northern region of Saudi Arabia. The descriptive cross-sectional design was used in this research. 503 nurses from six hospitals were included. This study introduced credible findings owing to the whole high response rate (73%) and outcomes with specified results. The staff nurses rated patient safety as very good (Mean = 2.30; SD = 0.839) supposing that efforts of the organizations and nurses were executed to offer the safest patient care possible. The whole patient safety culture was rated neutral supposing that (63%) of the staff nurses who participated in the current study have merged ideas about the status of patient safety culture in their respective organizations. Another essential result that required further investigation was the extent of frequency of events reported wherein between 25% and 32% or the whole 21% never or rarely reported events that occurred. The results of this research reflect that patient safety should be taken into account as a priority when enhancing health care-related activities by staff nurses in the studied hospitals.