Elif BarlukDilek Çeçen Çamlı2024-07-242024-07-242024http://akademikarsiv.cbu.edu.tr:4000/handle/123456789/26328Background: Nursing is a profession group where professional commitment is very important. Nurses with high professional commitment considered that they provide patient benefit in their jobs and to be more motivated by the profession. Positive attitudes and practices towards patient safety are very important due to the nature of surgical nursing. Objective: The study was designed to examine the effect of surgical nurses professional commitment on patient safety. Methods: The study was conducted using cross-sectional and descriptive design. Two hundred and seventy-two nurses included the study who is working in surgical units of a university and a public hospital was included in the study between May-June 2019. The instruments for data collection were 'Nurse Description Form' and 'Patient Safety Information Form', Nursing Professional Commitment Scale (NPCS) and Patient Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (PSAQ) were obtained. In the analysis of the data was used in SPSS 15.0 statistical package program. Results: The average of NPCS was 73.91 ± 11.98, and the mean of PSAQ was 159.58 ± 26.38. There were significant difference between the nurses' age, working year and institution studied whit Willingness to Effort. There were significant difference between the nurses' age and the institution with the NPCS. There was a significant difference between nurses' professional year and teamwork, safety climate, stress diagnostic sub-dimensions and total mean scores of PSAQ. Conclusions: In the study, a positive and moderate relationship was found between surgical nurses' perception of commitment to profession and patient safety attitude. Professional Commitment to the profession in nursing was found to be an important factor in explaining the patient safety attitude, which was a dependent variable.engAraştırma Makalesi