Importance of Patient Safety Culture in Saudi Arabian Hospitals

This article discusses the importance of patient safety culture in Saudi Arabian hospitals. It explains the benefits of a properly constituted patient safety culture and how it can help improve patient care. The article also highlights the significance of staff awareness, assessing the status of healthcare, identifying strengths and weaknesses, introducing initiatives and interventions, and examining trends in healthcare. The article cites relevant studies and references to support its claims.

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Patient Safety Culture
Name of Student
Name of Institution
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Questionnaire
1. Do you think this facility needs to make changes to the hospital patient safety culture?
A. Strongly Disagree B. Disagree C. Agree D. Strongly Agree
2. Are there patient safety movement problems?
A. Strongly Disagree B. Disagree C. Agree D. Strongly Agree
3. Do the working hours compromise services of patient care?
A. Strongly Disagree B. Disagree C. Agree D. Strongly Agree
4. Is the current system sufficient to prevent mistakes in the future?
A. Strongly Disagree B. Disagree C. Agree D. Strongly Agree
5. Are staff members comfortable to raise concerns about patient safety culture?
A. Strongly Disagree B. Disagree C. Agree D. Strongly Agree
6. Whenever there is workload, do staff members from other departments come to offer
assistance?
A. Strongly Disagree B. Disagree C. Agree D. Strongly Agree
7. Does the organization provide sufficient training for its staff pertaining to patient
safety culture?
A. Strongly Disagree B. Disagree C. Agree D. Strongly Agree
8. Are there training gaps that should be addressed to promote patient safety culture?
A. Strongly Disagree B. Disagree C. Agree D. Strongly Agree
9. Are you satisfied with the working environment in this facility?
A. Strongly Disagree B. Disagree C. Agree D. Strongly Agree
10. Do the patient safety indicators reflect the actual satisfaction with healthcare services?
A. Strongly Disagree B. Disagree C. Agree D. Strongly Agree
11. Is this facility complaint with the government regulations on healthcare?

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A. Strongly Disagree B. Disagree C. Agree D. Strongly Agree
12. Does the hospital recognizes its strengths and weaknesses in patient safety culture?
A. Strongly Disagree B. Disagree C. Agree D. Strongly Agree
13. Are there internal evaluations aimed at improving patient safety culture?
A. Strongly Disagree B. Disagree C. Agree D. Strongly Agree
Importance of Safety Patient Culture in Saudi Arabian Hospitals
Safety culture entails the combination of values, competencies, and attitudes of
professional officers in a healthcare organization (Mahrous, 2018). Patient safety culture is
obtained from the commitment and proficiency of clinicians, nurses, specialists, and
caregivers who work together for the benefit of patients. In order to attain the desired safety
culture, healthcare administrators should establish a mutual trust and shared objectives in its
operations. Therefore, a properly constituted patient safety culture is beneficial in the
following ways;
Creating staff awareness in the organization about patient safety culture.
Enlightening staff members about patient safety culture is the background for achieving the
desired results. When specialists and caregivers are properly trained about the needs of
patients, they enhance the quality of care because they will create a supportive environment
for the recovery of their patients (Mahrous, 2018). Besides medical treatments, these staff
members can offer psychological counselling and social support for the health of their
patients.
Secondly, patient safety culture is essential in assessing the status of healthcare in a
hospital. This enables sustainability of health standards and improvement of patient care. By
assessing the status of healthcare provision, the administrators can ascertain the quality of
care thereby recommending changes which can be implemented for the benefit of the patients

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(Santa, Borrero, Ferrer & Gherissi, 2018). Accordingly, it is important to note that patients
require regular assessments so that caregivers can understand their daily progress.
Thirdly, patient safety culture is required for identifying the strengths and
weaknesses of a healthcare program in a hospital (Weaver et al, 2013). As a result, it
becomes easy for the administrators to configure the areas which need improvement. By
understanding the strengths, a hospital can focus on these privileges to promote the quality of
care. On the other hand, knowing the weaknesses can enhance adjustment of patient care to
improve patient’s welfare.
Patient healthcare leads to the introduction of initiatives and interventions aimed at
creating cultural impacts. Having understood the needs of patients in a healthcare facility, the
caregivers can decide whether to use medical treatments or clinical interventions in dealing
with such cases (Ransom, 2008). This way, patient safety care can be attained through
evaluation of the hospital culture and quality of healthcare administration. This is an
approach which can work best for patients which require a combination of medical care and
psychosocial intervention.
Lastly, patient safety culture helps in examining the trends in healthcare and
evaluation of recurring cases in the facility. When caregivers are properly informed about the
cases which they are dealing with, it becomes easy to provide solutions with lasting effects on
the health status of patients (Ransom, 2008). Therefore, patient safety culture helps in
ascertaining that healthcare is administered in a professional manner.

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References
Mahrous, M. S. (2018). Patient safety culture as a quality indicator for a safe health system:
Experience from Almadinah Almunawwarah, KSA. Journal of Taibah University
Medical Science, 13, 377-83. Retrieved from
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtumed.2018.04.002
Ransom, E. R. (Ed.). (2008). The healthcare quality book: vision, strategy, and tools. Health
Administration Press.
Santa, R., Borrero, S., Ferrer, M., & Gherissi, D. (2018). Fostering a healthcare sector quality
and safety culture. International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, 31(7),
796-809.
Weaver, S. J., Lubomksi, L. H., Wilson, R. F., Pfoh, E. R., Martinez, K. A., & Dy, S. M.
(2013). Promoting a culture of safety as a patient safety strategy: a systematic
review. Annals of internal medicine, 158(5_Part_2), 369-374.