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Patient Safety Culture and Work Environment as Co-Factors Affecting Nurses’ Attitudes toward Incident Reporting

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Last updated: 29 Mar 2025

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Nursing Administration

Abstract

Background: Nurses have a vital role in safeguarding patients, minimizing the likelihood of errors, and improving patient outcomes. Aim: Investigating patient safety culture, work environment and their effect on nurses' attitudes toward incident reporting. Methods: A descriptive, correlational study was undertaken using a convenient sample of staff nurses at Urology and Nephrology Centre affiliated with Mansoura University. The sample size was 196. Data was obtained with the Patient Safety Culture Assessment Instrument, the Work Environment Scale, and the Attitudes towards Event Reporting Scale. Results: The study confirmed that a majority of staff nurses possess a high level of perception regarding patient safety culture. Additionally, more than half of them highly perceive their work environment, and more than two-thirds of staff nurses have a high level of positive attitude towards incident reporting. Consequently, highly statistically significant positive correlations were observed between patient safety culture and work environment with attitude towards incident reporting. Conclusion: The study found that staff nurses at Urology and Nephrology Centre had a strong patient safety culture, regarded their work environment positively, and had a highly positive attitude to report incidents. Recommendations: The study recommended integrating a patient safety culture into the hospital policy by allowing all hospital staff to participate in decision-making, creating a blame-free environment, implementing training programs on the significance of incident reporting for improving healthcare quality and patient safety, and teaching managers how to effectively utilize their problem-solving styles.

DOI

10.21608/mnj.2024.306573.1425

Keywords

Attitudes toward Incident Reporting, Patient Safety Culture, work environment

Authors

First Name

Marwa

Last Name

Almashad

MiddleName

Mohamed

Affiliation

Nursing Administration, Nursing, Mansoura University,Damietta, Egypt.

Email

marwa4moataz@gmail.com

City

Damietta

Orcid

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First Name

awatef

Last Name

kassem

MiddleName

hassan

Affiliation

Nursing administration,faculty of nursing,mansoura university, el mansoura, egypt

Email

awatef2008@mans.edu.eg

City

mansoura

Orcid

-

First Name

Ghalia

Last Name

Elkasaby

MiddleName

Elmoghazy

Affiliation

Quality,urology and Nephrology center,Mansoura University

Email

ghaliaelmoghazy@mans.edu.eg

City

Mansoura

Orcid

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First Name

Samir

Last Name

Sally

MiddleName

Mohamed

Affiliation

Urology and Nephrology,Medicine,Mansoura University,Mansoura,Egypt

Email

samirsally1@gmail.com

City

Mansoura

Orcid

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First Name

Ahlem

Last Name

Alshaer

MiddleName

Mahmoud

Affiliation

Nursing Administration Faculty of Nursing Mansoura University

Email

ahlamsh@mans.edu.eg

City

Mansoura

Orcid

-

Volume

12

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

54613

Issue Date

2025-01-01

Receive Date

2024-07-23

Publish Date

2025-01-01

Print ISSN

2735-4121

Online ISSN

2735-413X

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418,422

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Original Article

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1,468

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Journal

Publication Title

Mansoura Nursing Journal

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https://mnj.journals.ekb.eg/

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Patient Safety Culture and Work Environment as Co-Factors Affecting Nurses’ Attitudes toward Incident Reporting

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Article

Created At

29 Mar 2025