Patient Safety Culture and Spiritual Health in the Operating Room: An Iranian Exploratory Qualitative Study

The concept of patient safety and spiritual health are considered essential components of health care systems and form the main pillars of quality care in many health care organizations. This study aims to explain the culture of patient safety and spiritual health in the operating room from the perspectives of operating room physicians and nurses. This qualitative study was of qualitative conventional content analysis type using purposive sampling. Data were collected using semi-structured interviews. Graneheim and Landman (2004) methods were used to analyze the data. To analyze the data of this research, 5 main themes including continuous and dynamic training and upgrading of safety skills, attention to spirituality, conscientiousness and work commitment, effective communication and teamwork, equipping human and logistical resources based on the principle of care, accurate recognition of instructions and error control were obtained. According to the findings, a proper understanding of patient safety culture can improve patient safety culture and increase the quality of services provided to patients.