Investigation of current nurses′ security culture attitude in cancer hospital

Abstract

Objective To comprehend the status of nurses′ security culture attitudes in the cancer hospital, and provide a theoretical basis on developing security interventions. Methods The Chinese version of the revised security attitudes questionnaire was used to investigate the security culture attitudes of 331 nurses in a third-grade class-A cancer hospital. Results The cancer hospital nurses had a positive perception on patients′ safety with a total mean score of (125.52±17.96). The security culture attitudes of nurses were different in different gender, technical title, education and marital status (P<0.05). The each dimensions′ score of secure culture and attitude in nursing staffs had postive relationship with the total score (r=0.811, 0.865, 0.850, 0.864, 0.863, 0.341, respectivedy; P<0.05). By multiple linear regression analysis, the gender, marital status, education, and technical title were influencing factors impacting on nurses′ security culture attitudes(P<0.05). Conclusions Nurse managers should concern about the job satisfaction of medium grade occupational title nurses. They should strengthen communication and guidance to nurses with bachelor degree. Married nurses should also be helped to deal with multi-role conflict. These measures are effective to improve nurses′ positivity on security culture, and promote a habit establishment of nursing security and to ensure patients′ safety. Key words: Data collection; Nursing staffs; Security culture; Cancer hospital