Perceptions of patient safety culture between nurses working in public and private hospitals

The purpose of this study is that perception of patient safety culture between nurses working in public and private hospitals is evaluated. It is a descriptive and comparative research that conducting among nurses working in public and private hospitals which are related to Health Ministry in İstanbul between March and May 2016. Total of 274 volunteer nurses working at least 1 year, completed the orientation training have been paticipated in this study. The research data has been collected with using a questionnaire containing demographic characteristics prepared by researchers and "Patient Safety Culture Scale" which is prepared by Türkmen et al. (2011). The data has been analysed at 95% confidence intervals and 5% significance level in SPSS-22 software programme. Descriptive statistics of the variables has been done, t-test, Mann Whitney U test, One Way ANOVA and Kruskal Wallis tests have been applied. As a result of finding examinations related to patient safety, it has been detected that 95,6% of nurses has been completed their training. The highest mean score obtained from the scale as lower size "Training of employees" has been found 3.00 ± 0.44. According to results of our study, the number of patients seen in daily and weekly working hours increase represents that the negative impact on patient safety. It is determinated that the nurses who are satisfied with their professions and sections have higher than the average score of patient safety. It is found significance difference between hospitals in terms of average score of patient safety culture. It is recommended that making more comparisons between institutions for patient safety culture, lacking or need of improvement areas should be done in the field of study.