Investigation of patient safety attitudes of operating room staff

Operating rooms are one of the most chaotic work environments in a hospital. It is vital that patientsafety measures are followed to obtain standardization in health care in the operating rooms. This study was conducted to investigate patient safety attitudes of the staff working in operating rooms. The study was conducted using a descriptive and a cross-sectional design with staff working in central operating rooms between February 2017 and October 2017 in Balcali Hospital of Medical Faculty of Cukurova University, and in Adana Numune Training and Research Hospital. The population of the study consisted of health care staff working in the operating room units. Rather than selecting a sample from the population, reaching the whole population was aimed at. 254 people who accepted to participate in the study, and who met the inclusion criteria, were included in the study. Staff information form for collecting demographic data of the staff, and the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ) for assessing patient safety attitudes of the staff, were used to collect the data. SPSS version 20 software was used to analyze the data. The results were interpreted using a 95 % confidence interval and a p < 0.05 significance level. The mean scores of the SAQ were as follows; the mean total SAQ scores were 49,58 ± 12,67, the scores for teamwork climate dimension were 58,52±13,63, the scores for job satisfaction dimension were 59,82±22,41, the scores for perceptions of management dimension were 44,35±22,99, the scores for safety climate dimension were 50,97±15,21, the scores for working conditions dimension were 51,35±25,01, and finally, the scores for stress recognition dimension were 36,83±16,14. The results suggest that patient safety attitudes of the staffworking in the operating rooms were on an intermediate level. Providing necessary educa