Patient Safety Culture

Adequate staffing is identified as important for improving safety culture and reducing error risk in critical care. Tactical employees held a more optimistic view of safety culture than frontline nurses. Tactical and operational levels had the same average IZEP score for incident reporting, evaluating, and learning culture. Adult critical care units generally had more negative safety culture responses than paediatric units. Safety culture is defined as shared beliefs, norms, and values about institutional and workforce responsibility for safe patient outcomes. Healthcare professionals rated most safety culture dimensions positively overall. The study identified a perception gap between tactical managers and operational nurses about patient safety culture. The study assessed healthcare professionals' perceptions of patient safety culture in adult and paediatric critical care units in Kuwaiti governmental hospitals. The authors recommend extending the Safety II framework to home care nursing.