The investigation of the relationship between patient safety culture and health quality indicators of nurses working in surgical intensive care units

Objective: This study was performed in order to investigate the relationship between health safety culture and health quality indicators of nurses working in surgical intensive care units. Method: This cross-sectional descriptive study was performed in Anesthesiology and Reanimation Intensive Care Unit of Ege University Health Application and Research Center, General Intensive Care Unit of Bozyaka Training and Research Hospital; Anesthesiology and Reanimation Intensive Care Unit of Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Medicine Hospital, Anesthesiology and Reanimation Intensive Care Unit of Dokuz Eylul University Faculty of Medicine Hospital, Cardiovascular Surgery Intensive Care Unit of İzmir Katip Celebi University Atatürk Training and Research Hospital. The study was performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and approved by ethics committee. The sample consisted of 113 nurses working in intensive care units and accepting to the study between November 2018 and February 2019. The data were collected using data collection form which prepared based on literature and consists of three section (diagnostic form, health quality indicators, patient safety culture hospital quastionnaire). Student t test, one-way Anova and logistic regression were used to evaluate of the data. P <0.05 was accepted as statistically significant. Results: At the end of the study, nurses' level of patient safety culture was found medium (65.5%) level, the highest average of positive response was teamworks within units (63.5%), the lowest average of positive response was frequency of event reporting (25.5%). There was a significant relationship between patient safety culture and health quality indicators (p=0.027, p<0.05). Conclusions: It was determined that nurses working in surgical intensive care units had a medium level of patient safety culture, and significant relationship was found between patient safety culture and health quality indicators.