Organizational culture and patient safety in intensive care

Establish the relationship between organisational culture and patient safety in nursing in Intensive Care of a Health Institute.

Quantitative, non-experimental, cross-sectional and correlational study, carried out with 96 healthcare nurses from a Health Institute in Lima, Peru. The survey technique and two questionnaires were used, one created by Nizama (2012) and validated by the Health Ministry; the other prepared by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), using the version adapted to Spanish by Alvarado (2014). The results were processed by SPSS version 25, presented in statistical tables. The relationship between the variables was established with Spearman's Rho test (p < 0.001).

A moderate level of the dimensions of the organisational culture and patient safety variables is shown; a significant relationship between the dimensions visible artifacts, business environment, communication system, management system, belief value system, and patient safety, with a Spearman's Rho value equal to 0.682, 0.659, 0.650, 0.602 and 0.665 (p < 0.001), respectively. The relationship between organisational culture and patient safety had a Spearman's Rho value of 0.752 (p < 0.001).

There is a significant relationship between organisational culture and patient safety, with a moderate level predominating in its dimensions, especially visible artifacts, the communication system and the system of values ​​and beliefs.