RELATION BETWEEN NURSES’ WORK ENVIRONMENT AND THEIR APPLICATION OF NATIONAL SAFETY REQUIREMENTS IN PORT SAID HOSPITALS

Background: Nurses’ practice environment has been associated with the quality of patient care and nurses’ satisfaction. Patient safety is the constant focus on preventing mistakes and unfavorable consequences for patients related to medical care. Aim: The study aimed to investigate the relation between Nurses’ work environment and their application of National Safety Requirements in Port Said Hospitals. Design: A descriptive correlational research design was employed. Setting: The study was conducted at six accredited hospitals in Port Said. Subjects: The study involved 353 nurses. Tools: The Work Environment Survey and National Safety Requirements Tool. Results revealed that (58.4%) of the nurses studied had moderate work environment level, while (42.2%) of them had high level, and only (1.4%) of them had low level. Concerning nurses` compliance with total patient safety standards, (92.9%) of the studied nurses had total partial met compliance with patient safety standards, while only (7.1%) of them had total met compliance. Conclusion: There was a highly significant positive correlation between the total environmental safety level and the studied nurses` total compliance with NSR standards. Age, experience years, job title, qualifications, and total NSR compliance were the statistically significant independent positive predictors of total environmental safety among the studied head nurses. Recommendation: Based on these findings, it is recommended to explore unit-based differences, examine changes in work environment and NSR compliance over time, and broaden research across different geographic regions and hospital types (public/private) to enhance the generalization of findings.