Attitude of the Nurses of Kashan Educational Hospitals toward Workplace Safety climate in 2014

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  Introduction : Nursing is a dangerous job and addressing the safety concern of the nurses is necessary. Assessing the safety climate is one of the assessing methods for safety situation. Safety climate is a multi-dimensions factor that describes how the employees share perceptions toward safety. The aim of this study was to survey the safety climate and its structural factors among the educating hospitals' nursing staff.   Materials and methods: This descriptive analytical and census study was conducted among the 480 nursing staff of 6 educating hospital in Kashan Iran during 2014. Demographic information and mental workload data were gathered using demographic information questionnaire and nurse safety climate questionnaire respectively. The data were analyzed by using spssv16 software. t-test, one way ANOVA and Pierson correlation confession analytical tests.   Results : Nurse's communication (3.41) and error reporting (3.07) obtained the highest and the lowest scores respectively among the safety climate factors. Total safety climate score was estimated at 3.23. There was no significant relationship between safety climate and demographic characteristics but, there was a significant relationship between safety climate factors (p

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