Factors Influencing the Perception of Safety Culture of Professional Nurses, Srinagarind Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University

Abstract

The descriptive predictive research designed to study the factors that influenced the perception of safety culture of professional nurses. The samples were 209 professional nurses in Srinagarind hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen university selected by stratified random sampling. The research tools consisted of the questionnaires for personal factors, work environmental factors and safety culture as perceived by professional nurses. The content validity indexes of the questionnaires were 1.00, 0.97 and 0.99, respectively. The reliability of the questionnaires in 2nd and 3rd sections examined by the Cronbach’s alpha coefficient were 0.97, 0.96, respectively. Data were analyzed using the descriptive statistics, Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis.

The result revealed that 1) the overall mean score of safety culture perception of professional nurses in Srinagarind hospital, faculty of medicine, Khon Kaen university was at a high level ( = 4.15, S.D = 0.52) 2) the personal factors; age and duration of work had moderately positive correlation with safety culture perception of professional nurses (r = 0.326, p = 0.002 and r = 0.311, p = 0.003, respectively) and the safety culture training had low positive correlation with safety culture perception of professional nurses (r =0.025, p = 0.022). The level of education showed no correlation with safety culture perception of professional nurses. And 3) the variables coordinately predicted the safety culture perception of registered nurses in Srinagarind Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen university with statistically significant level of 0.05 were the environmental factor in quality management, infection prevention and duration of work. They could coordinately predict the safety culture perception of registered nurses at 71.20%.