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Abstract
A work environment that supports professional nursing as well as the spirituality of nurses may contribute to quality of patient care, safety culture in a health care environment that is free of injury and harm. Therefore, providing a work environment that magnetizes nurses fosters excellence becomes crucial for attracting and maintaining new graduates, improving turnover, and ensuring safe care and work climate.
The study was aimed to identify staff nurses’ perception of work environment and it’s relation to patient safety culture through: Assessing staff nurses’ perception of work environment, Assessing staff nurses’ perception of patient safety culture and finding out the relationship the staff nurses’ perception of their work environment and it’s relation to patient safety culture.
This study was conducted at medical and surgical departments at National Medical institute, which affiliated to Ministry of health, it is located in Damanhur which is the capital of El-Behera Governorate. Using Descriptive, Correlational design. 150 staff nurses out from 420 were participted in the study.tow Self-administered questionnaire sheets were used for collecting data. It included Work Environment Scale (WES) sheet for assesing staff nurses perception of their work environment which include 10
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dimensions namely: Involvement, coworker, cohesion, supervisor support, autonomy, task orientation, work pressure, clarity, managerial control, innovation and physical comfort.and Patients safety culture survey for assesing staff nurses’ perception regarding patient safety culture. which include 37 items classified 3 main sectors namely outcome sector (2 items),unit level sector(27 items) and hospital wid safety culture sector (8 items) , which were face and content validated by experts and pilot-tested for reliability. The process of data collection phase took three months 2016.
The results of the study revealed that:
staff nurses had high perception regarding work environment related to managerial control dimension, On other hand, the lowest perception was related to work pressure dimension.
Involvement and co worker had moderate perception level, staff nurses had low perception level of regarding autonomy dimension.
There was a statistically significant relates between staff nurses age, years of experience and perception towards work environment.
Communication openness and feed back communications had moderate perception level.
Staff nursing had bachelor of nursing perceive patient safety culture higher than other nurses.
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Staff nurses with age less than 25 years perceived patient safety culture higher than other nurses.
In conclusion: there was no statistically significant difference their perception of work environment and all demographic characteristics of the staff nurses , expect years of experience ,so There was a highly statistically significant correlation between total work environment score and total patient safety culture score.
It is recommended that: Development of standards, specifications for staff nurses by the Ministry of Health, Hospital management have to emphasize on consider patient safety as a top strategic priority, Clear related policies and procedures should be communicated to each staff member in the hospital , Building supportive environment with constructive feedback in highly needed and further researches are recommended as Influence of work environment and autonomy among staff nurses and relation between Patient safety culture and patient safety.