The Predicting Role of the Safety Climate in the Professional Behavior of Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Study

Abstract

Background: Safety climate which is a subset of organizational climate in the field of safety mirrors the attitude of people in care centers towards safety. In addition to being in connection with diverse parts of the organization’s function, safety climate can also affect the nurse’s performance. Aim: The present study aimed at determining the predicting role of the safety climate in the professional behavior of nurses working in hospitals affiliated to Bushehr University of Medical Sciences. Methods: In this cross sectional study, which is of descriptive analytical type, 595 expert nurses currently working with more than 6 months of working experience in the medical wards of hospitals affiliated to Bushehr University of Medical Sciences entered the study. Data was gathered from the viewpoint of the nurse and professional behavior through a demographic information form and two safety climate questionnaires. Then the data were analyzed by V.19 SPSS which is statistical software. The data analysis was conducted using univariate regression and multivariate linear regression at the significance level of 0.05. Results: Among the diverse domains of the safety climate, the field of nursing education (P= 0.027, ß=0.104), communicating with other nurses (P= 0.027, ß=0.101) and error reporting (P= <0.001, ß= 0.191) were the direct prediction of professional nursing behavior. Also, apart from safety climate, satisfaction of the nursing job had a direct, statistic and significant relationship with professional behavior (P= <0.001, ß= 0.142). Conclusion: Attempts to create a ward, in which the nurses receive the necessary education in an appropriate time and ameliorate their expertise, as well as a climate in which nurses have such a good relationship with their collages that they can easily talk about the possible mistakes and errors, can upgrade nurse’s professional behavior.

The relationship between organizational ethical climate and components of nursing error reporting in selected hospitals of Tehran University of Medical Sciences in 2020

“…A study by Bagherzadeh and colleagues in Bushehr showed that the safety climate associated with training and communication between nurses increases the reporting of nursing errors, which is directly related to the professional behaviour of nurses (Bagherzadeh et al, 2021). Also, considering the significant relationship that was found between patients' ethical climate and most of the components of nursing error reporting, hospital managers must develop appropriate programmes to promote health literacy and patient awareness in terms of disease recognition, self‐care principles, and care‐treatment methods and also provide the necessary conditions for further disclosure of nursing errors by improving patients' awareness of the errors that occurred and the measures taken after the error occurrence.…”