Background: Effective collaboration between staff nurses as a professional is
associated with patient safety and quality of care. The aim:. to examine staff nurses`
perception of inter-professional collaboration versus patient safety climate.Design: A
descriptive correlation research design was used. Setting:. The study will be conducted at
Banha fever Hospital, affiliated to Ministry of Health, in Banha, Qalubya.Sample:
convenience sample consisted of 170 staff nurses. Tools: two questionnaire were used; Tool
I: Inter-professional Collaboration questionnaire: consists of two parts; (part 1): socio-
demographic characteristic :and (part 2): Inter-professional Collaboration questionnaire
to examine perception of inter-professional collaboration among staff nurses. Tool II:
Patient safety climate questionnaire to examine perception of patient safety climate among
staff nurses. Results: the staff nurses had a neutral level of collaborative perception; the
total level of inter professional collaboration among staff nurses` perception was higher
(91.2). Also nurses had neutral perception regard patient safety climate. Nurses had higher
percent regard patient safety climate (71.8). Conclusion: there was significant correlation
between inter professional collaboration versus patient safety climate among staff nurses`.
Recommendations: conduct in service program and workshop about collaborative team
work and patient safety climate perception among staff nurses` and development of an inter-
professional collaborative environment to increase nurses' performance as well as improve
patient safety climate.