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This cross-sectional and descriptive study was conducted to determine the patient safety attitudes of nurses working in surgical units and the factors affecting them. The study was conducted with 281 nurses working in the surgical units of two private hospitals in Ankara and the data were collected with the Descriptive Characteristics Form and Patient Safety Attitude Scale. Data were analyzed using frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, t test, one-way ANOVA test, Kruskal Wallis test and Tukey test in SPSS 22.0 program. The mean total score of the "Patient Safety Attitude Scale" of the nurses was 117.32±26.06 and was considered to be close to the middle level. It was determined that the highest score was obtained from "working conditions" and the lowest score was obtained from "safety climate" sub-dimension. Significance was found between the patient safety attitude scores of nurses according to their work schedule, duration of hospital experience, average weekly working time, according to receiving patient safety training and participating in quality studies conducted in the institution. as a result, it shows that there is a need to improve the patient safety attitudes of nurses working in surgical units in the hospitals where the study was conducted, but it also shows that receiving training on patient safety and participating in the development processes of patient safety practices positively affect patient safety attitudes.

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