Safety Climate and Motivation toward Patient Safety among Japanese Nurses in Hospitals of Fewer than 250 Beds

Hospital safety climate surveys: measurement issues

“…For example, staff's perceptions of incident reporting (e.g., fear of incident reporting, willingness to report, and doubts about incident reporting) were found to be related to safety management at ward level, but not at hospital level [51 ] and motivation to report incidents was associated with reporting, nursing conditions, and communications with physician-related aspects of safety climate [52 ]. Links between the climate dimension of management's support for health and safety and workers' safety compliance have been also demonstrated [53 ].…”

Individual and work environment characteristics associated with error occurrences in Korean public hospitals

“…Kagan and Barnoy (2008) found that the ward nurse managers’ role and hospital norms in dealing with reported errors were significant determinants influencing error reporting. Kudo et al (2009) reported that nurses’ motivation to prevent mistakes was associated with the safety climate. These study findings demonstrate the importance of safety cultural factors in reporting and sharing errors, thereby reducing errors.…”

Hospital Safety Climate, Psychosocial Risk Factors and Needlestick Injuries in Japan

“…Organizational climate has important repercussions for nurses' occupational health outcomes 14) , with safety climate having been shown to affect nurses' compliance with universal precautions 15) . Although the dimensions of safety climate have been studied in Japanese HCW to some extent 16) , research has mostly focussed on patient safety 17) , rather than NSI.…”