Original Articles: 2015 Vol: 7 Issue: 5
Employers�¢���� view about patient safety culture
Abstract
One of the most prominent human rights is safety against dangers and harm while receiving health services. Safety Culture is one of the effective factors to improve patient safety in these centers. In fact, patient safety culture indicates the priority level of patient safety from the employers' view. This study has been done with the goal to determine the health employers' view about the patient safety culture in health centers in Rasht. This cross-sectional study whose population includes health employers in educational medical centers in Rasht as 384 samples involving 312 nurses, 24 radiology staff and 48 laboratory staff selected by using stratified random sampling. This study instrument was Patient Safety Culture Questionnaire with 51 phrases, including two areas namely the safety culture's dimensions and consequences. Data analysis has been done by descriptive and inferential statistics methods such as chi-square in SPSS version 16. The results showed that the majority of the participants had favorable view about the safety culture's dimensions (62.2%). 48/3% of the participants had favorable views and 44/6% had unfavorable views about the safety culture's outcomes. Chi-square test demonstrated a significant relationship between the type of employment and the outcomes of safety culture (p>0/007, c2 =12.08). Relationship between the other individual and social variables and consequences of the safety culture was not significant. Based on our findings about unfavorable views in many of samples and significant correlations have been found between the type of employment and the consequences of safety culture and that the individuals with greater job stability had a more favorable view, it seems to be a step in the direction of stabilizing employment to improve patient safety culture.