Conclusions
In this study, which investigated health workers’ attitudes about patient safety in perioperative care and the factors affecting these attitudes, healthcare workers’ operating room patient safety attitudes were found to be very low. In addition, health workers defined communication and collaboration between team members as adequate in various rates. Therefore, this kind of a study is recommended to be replicated in hospitals that have a more equipped team.
Due to the factors such as high number of patients requiring perioperative care and various occupational groups’ providing health care services cause to encounter many problems that risk patient safety. Therefore, particularly working hours should be regulated according to laws, all the workers to work in the institution should be provided with an orientation program, practices that would improve occupational groups’ communication and cooperation should be organized, and in-service trainings on patient safety should be organized with the participation of administrations. Views of the institution about patient safety culture and each clinic’s general management understanding play an important role in patient safety attitude.