BACKGROUND Nurses' perceptions of ethical climate patterns have certain undeniable effects on hospitals. There is little evidence of possible differences in this element between public and private hospitals and contributing factors. OBJECTIVES This study investigated whether the perceptions of the ethical climate in nurses' working in public hospitals differ from that of nurses in private hos...

OBJECTIVE Despite many initiatives, advances in patient safety remain uneven in part because poor relationships among health professionals have not been addressed. The purpose of this study was to determine whether relationships between health professionals contributed to a patient safety climate, after implementation of an intervention to improve inter-professional collaboration. DESIGN/SETT...

BACKGROUND Although patient safety climate is an important factor in preventing adverse events in health care organizations, there is no usable Japanese scale. OBJECTIVE To develop a Japanese scale to measure patient safety climate and to evaluate its psychometric properties. METHODS Cross-sectional questionnaire survey was conducted with respect to 9 non-academic general hospitals in Japan...

RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES Explicit attention to patient safety during surgical training is needed to improve patient safety. A positive safety climate is associated with greater patient safety and is a requisite for safety teaching at the workplace. The Safety Climate Survey (SCS) measures perceptions of safety climate. This study aims to take a first step in validating the SCS for use amo...

Overviewing selected elements from the literature, this paper locates the notion of safety culture within its parent concept of organisational culture. A distinction is drawn between functionalist and interpretive perspectives on organisational culture. The terms ‘culture’ and ‘climate’ are clarified as they are typically applied to organisations and to safety. A contrast is drawn between strat...