Iranian Journal Of Health Sciences

en The Perspectives Toward Patient Safety Culture among Nurses Staff in Educational Hospitals in Gorgan in 2011 مدیریت خدمات بهداشتی درمانی Health care Management پژوهشي Original Article Background and purpose: The basic responsibility of nurses is to maintain patient safety including notifying patients and colleagues about risk and risk reduction methods, supporting the patient safety and reporting events to a responsible person. Without creating a safety culture in all health facilities a sustainable development in the patient care do not occur. This study aims to determine the patient safety culture in teaching hospitals in Gorgan. Materials and methods: In this cross-sectional study, a target group includes nurses at 5 Azar, Taleghani and Deziani Hospitals in Gorgan in 2011. The study population included 348 nurses in these hospitals. The data collection instrument was a questionnaire with 43 questions. Statistical tests were ANOVA and T-Test. Results: Twenty four percent of nurses believed patient safety culture is weak, 46.8% of them, moderate and 30.7% good. The weakest dimension was non-punitive response to error and strongest dimension was organizational education. Statistic test showed significant relationship between patient safety culture and experience (p= 0.021), employment status (p= 0.001), hospital (p= 0.001), ward (p= 0.003). Conclusion: The status of the patient safety culture was related moderate from the nurses' view point but it is necessary it improved in dimensions of the non-punitive response and the staff workload to note that it is highly recommended to take some actions in this regard. Medical Error, Patient Safety, Patient Safety Culture, Nurse 75 83 http://jhs.mazums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-25-32&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Mohammadjavad Kabir 10031947532846003950 10031947532846003950 No Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Lcturer of Community medicine, Alireza Heidari heidari_ar_2000@yahoo.com 10031947532846003951 10031947532846003951 Yes Health Management and Social Development Research Center, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran Nahid Jafari 10031947532846003952 10031947532846003952 No Health Management and Social Development Research Center, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan Sodabeh Vatankhah 10031947532846003953 10031947532846003953 No School of Health Management, Tehran University of Medical Sciences Korosh Etemad 10031947532846003954 10031947532846003954 No Epidemiology, Health Management and Social Development Research Center, Golestan University of Medical Mohsen Aarabi 10031947532846003955 10031947532846003955 No Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Mazandaran, Iran. Ali Aghapour 10031947532846003956 10031947532846003956 No Treatment Affairs, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran Mansoreh Lotfi 10031947532846003957 10031947532846003957 No Health Management and Social Development Research Center, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran.