Relationship between Perceptions of Organizational Culture with Patients’ Safety Behavior among Nurses in Babol
Background & Aim: Governing organizational culture in hospitals can affect patients’ safety through establishment of behavioral norms among nurses. This study aimed to determine the relationship between nurses’ perception of organizational culture and their performance about patients’ safety ....
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author | Ezzat Jafarjalal Hossein Jafarpour Nahid Dehghan Nayeri Hamid Haghani |
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description | Background & Aim: Governing organizational culture in hospitals can affect patients’ safety through establishment of behavioral norms among nurses. This study aimed to determine the relationship between nurses’ perception of organizational culture and their performance about patients’ safety .
Methods & Materials: In this cross sectional, descriptive-correlation study, we used stratified sampling method to recruit 250 nurses working in general wards and emergency departments of general hospitals in Babol, 2013. Data were collected through questionnaires and were analyzed using the descriptive and inferential statistic tests including the Pearson test, ANOVA test and T-test in the SPSS .
Results: Nurseschr('39') perception of organizational culture was "fairly desirable" (54.5%). Performance of the nurses in the field of patientschr('39') safety was "desirable" (88%). The Pearson test showed that there was a positive and statistically significant correlation between nurses’ perception of organizational culture and their performance in the field of patients’ safety (P<0.01) .
Conclusion: It seems that improving organizational culture in hospitals can enhance nurses’ performance in the field of patientschr('39') safety . |
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spelling | doaj.art-70c4a0cbe7b949539cec4791164c350e2022-12-21T22:07:13ZfasTehran University of Medical Sciencesحیات1735-22152008-188X2013-12-01193516Relationship between Perceptions of Organizational Culture with Patients’ Safety Behavior among Nurses in BabolEzzat Jafarjalal0Hossein Jafarpour1Nahid Dehghan Nayeri2Hamid Haghani3 Background & Aim: Governing organizational culture in hospitals can affect patients’ safety through establishment of behavioral norms among nurses. This study aimed to determine the relationship between nurses’ perception of organizational culture and their performance about patients’ safety . Methods & Materials: In this cross sectional, descriptive-correlation study, we used stratified sampling method to recruit 250 nurses working in general wards and emergency departments of general hospitals in Babol, 2013. Data were collected through questionnaires and were analyzed using the descriptive and inferential statistic tests including the Pearson test, ANOVA test and T-test in the SPSS . Results: Nurseschr('39') perception of organizational culture was "fairly desirable" (54.5%). Performance of the nurses in the field of patientschr('39') safety was "desirable" (88%). The Pearson test showed that there was a positive and statistically significant correlation between nurses’ perception of organizational culture and their performance in the field of patients’ safety (P<0.01) . Conclusion: It seems that improving organizational culture in hospitals can enhance nurses’ performance in the field of patientschr('39') safety .http://hayat.tums.ac.ir/article-1-611-en.htmlpatient safetyorganizational cultureperceptionnurse |
spellingShingle | Ezzat Jafarjalal Hossein Jafarpour Nahid Dehghan Nayeri Hamid Haghani Relationship between Perceptions of Organizational Culture with Patients’ Safety Behavior among Nurses in Babol حیات patient safety organizational culture perception nurse |
title | Relationship between Perceptions of Organizational Culture with Patients’ Safety Behavior among Nurses in Babol |
title_full | Relationship between Perceptions of Organizational Culture with Patients’ Safety Behavior among Nurses in Babol |
title_fullStr | Relationship between Perceptions of Organizational Culture with Patients’ Safety Behavior among Nurses in Babol |
title_full_unstemmed | Relationship between Perceptions of Organizational Culture with Patients’ Safety Behavior among Nurses in Babol |
title_short | Relationship between Perceptions of Organizational Culture with Patients’ Safety Behavior among Nurses in Babol |
title_sort | relationship between perceptions of organizational culture with patients safety behavior among nurses in babol |
topic | patient safety organizational culture perception nurse |
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