Patient Safety Culture: Perception of Emergency Nurses

Abstract

Patient safety culture is fundamental to the quality of health systems and crucial in adverse contexts, characterised by high workloads and time pressure. This is a cross-sectional study. The results have shown that emergency service nurses considered 10 dimensions of safety culture as weak and a total of 12 dimensions needed improvement. Therefore, it is essential to implement strategies to improve a culture of patient safety, such as raising the team’s awareness about this and the importance of notification. Managers should be involved in patient safety problem-related contexts.

Keywords

• patient safety
• nursing
• organizational culture
• emergency department