Relation between Organizational Safety Climate and Continuity of Patients’ Care among Nurses

Background: Healthcare organizational safety climate promotes nurses' adherence tosafety regulations, reduces stress levels as well as medical errors, and can result inimproving nurses’ performance and continuity of patient care. Aim of the study: Toassess the relation between organizational safety climate and continuity of patients'care among nurses. Research design: A descriptive-correlational research design wasutilized. Setting: The study was preceded at Samannoud Central Hospital, affiliated tothe Ministry of Health and Population. Subject: The study subject comprised astratified random sample of (n=265) nurses. Tools: Two tools were used to collectdata. Organizational Safety Climate Questionnaire, and Patient Continuity of CareObservational Checklist. Results: 40.4% of nurses had a moderate perception level ofoverall organizational safety climate. 80% of the studied nurses had satisfactorypractice of continuing patient care. Conclusion: There was a statistically significantpositive correlation between nurses' perception of organizational safety climate andlevel of continuity of patient care. Recommendations: The hospital managementneeds to conduct continuous in-service training for nursing staff to update nurses'knowledge and skills about organizational safety climate and best practiceinterventions