Evidence and practice

Nurses’ perceptions of the influence of leadership behaviours and organisational culture on patient safety incident reporting practices

Islam Ali Al-Oweidat Assistant professor, Zarqa University, Zarqa, Jordan

Ali Saleh Associate professor, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan

Anas Husam Khalifeh Assistant professor, Zarqa University, Zarqa, Jordan

Nazih Abu Tabar Assistant professor, Fatima College of Health Sciences, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates

Mohammad Rafe Al Said Assistant professor, Zarqa University, Zarqa, Jordan

Malek Mohammad Khalil Assistant professor, Zarqa University, Zarqa, Jordan

Huthaifah Khrais Assistant professor, Zarqa University, Zarqa, Jordan

Why you should read this article:

• To appreciate the importance of patient safety incident reporting practices
• To understand that optimal patient safety incident reporting practices require effective leadership behaviours
• To be aware of the need for a positive organisational culture to improve incident reporting practices

Background: Patient safety is a priority for all healthcare organisations. Enhancing patient safety incident reporting practices requires effective leadership behaviours at all levels in healthcare organisations.

Aim: To explore nurses’ perceptions of the influence of nurse managers’ leadership behaviours and organisational culture on patient safety incident reporting practices.

Method: A descriptive, cross-sectional, correlational design was adopted with a convenience sample of 325 nurses from 15 Jordanian hospitals.

Results: Respondents had positive perceptions of their nurse managers’ leadership behaviours and organisational culture. There was a significant positive relationship between leadership behaviours and organisational culture (r=0.423, P<0.001) and between leadership behaviours and actual incident-reporting practices (r=0.131, P<0.001). Additionally, there was a significant positive relationship between organisational culture and incident-reporting practices (r=0.250, P<0.001).

Conclusion: Healthcare organisations must develop leaders who will foster a supportive and just culture that will enhance nurses’ practice with regards to reporting patient safety incidents.

Nursing Management. doi: 10.7748/nm.2023.e2088

Peer review

This article has been subject to external double-blind peer review and checked for plagiarism using automated software

Correspondence

akhalifeh@zu.edu.jo

Conflict of interest

None declared

Al-Oweidat IA, Saleh A, Khalifeh AH et al (2023) Nurses’ perceptions of the influence of leadership behaviours and organisational culture on patient safety incident reporting practices. Nursing Management. doi: 10.7748/nm.2023.e2088

Published online: 16 May 2023

Keywords :

leadership - never events - organisational culture - patient safety - patients - professional - professional issues - transformational leadership