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Abstract

 

Patient safety is still an important issue for healthcare services in the hospital. Any health care providers can contribute to adverse events, especially nurses. Further, nurses are the highest number of health care providers in the hospital who take care of the patients for 24 hours continuously, and often interact with patients with various nursing procedures. These conditions can provide a great chance for adverse events which threaten patient safety. The most difficult obstacle in implementing patient safety is creating a safety culture as a foundation for patient safety programs. The purpose of this study was to determine the correlation between the hospital work environment, nurses’ characteristics and the implementation of patient safety. This study was a descriptive correlative study with a cross sectional approach. The population in this study was 123 ward nurses. Data was obtained by distributing valid and reliable questionnaires. The analytical technique used is univariate to obtain the characteristics of each demographic and bivariate variables used to determine the relationship between the variables of the study. The results showed that there was a significant relationship between hospital work environment, nurses’ characteristics (education level, length of service and training with the implementation of patient safety)  (P Value <0.05). Furthermore, nurses’ characteristics include age and marital status  were not related to the implementation of patient safety in the hospital  (P Value > 0.05). Finding indicate that hospital work environment and some of nurses’ characteristics important for patient safety implementation.