Does Employee Safety Matter for Patients Too? Employee Safety Climate and Patient Safety Culture in Health Care

Conclusions Medical facilities where staff have more positive perceptions of health care workplace safety climate tended to have more positive assessments of patient safety culture. This suggests that patient safety culture and employee safety climate could be mutually reinforcing, such that investments and improvements in one domain positively impacts the other. Further research is needed to better understand the nexus between health care employee and patient safety to generalize and act upon findings.
Source: Journal of Patient Safety - Category: Health Management Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research