Background: Intensive care unit nurses are personally responsible and accountable for their
nursing practice and conduct which may be linked to patient safety awareness. Aim: To assess
the relation between nurses' accountability and their patient's safety awareness at intensive care
units. Subjects and method: Design: A descriptive correlational research study design. Setting:
It conducted at Tanta University Hospitals in all ICU nurses (n=350). Subjects: All ICU nurses
(n=350) who working in the setting mentioned above. Tools: data were collected by using
nurses' accountability structured questionnaire and nurses awareness' of patient's safety
structured questionnaire at intensive care units. Results: More than half (53.4 %) of ICU nurses
had moderate level of overall accountability, more than half (50.9 %) of there had high level
of patient safety knowledge, majority (85.1%) of them had positive attitude of patient safety
and nearly half (49, 9%) of nurse were expert in patient safety skills. Conclusion: There was
a statistically significant positive correlation between ICU nurses' accountability and their
patient's safety awareness at p ≤ 0.05. Recommendations: Top management of Tanta
University Hospitals pays more attention to educational training program for ICU nurses about
accountability and patient safety