Correlation research between nurses’cognition on patients safety culture and their safety behaviors
Yang Wei
Pan Yingli
Abstract：Objective:To know about the status quo of nurses’cognition on patients safety culture and their safe-ty behaviors and analyze the correlation between them.Methods:A total of 624 clinical nurses were investigated with hospital patient safety culture scale and safety behavior scale.Results:The total score of patient safety cul-ture cognition of nurses was 3.94 ± 0.42;while the total score of their safety behaviors was 4.44 ± 0.49.It showed that there was positive correlation between patient safety culture cognition of nurses and their safety be-haviors.Regression analysis showed that the patient safety culture cognition could independently explain 28.5%of the total variance of the safety behaviors after controlling demographic variables.Conclusion:Nursing manag-ers could strengthen nurses’cognition on patient safety culture and promote their safety behavior of patients,so as to ensure the safety of patients.
Keywords：nursescognitionpatient safety culturesafety behavior
Publication Date：2016-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 1185-1189 )