Özet:

As patients learn their rights, the interest in the diversity and quality of the healthcare offerings also increases. The concept of patient safety, which is one of the basic elements of quality, is the measures taken by the health institution and its employees in order to prevent damage to the patient in general. Health workers often do not agree on how they will behave in assessing the various factors of benefit and harm. There is not always any evidence of what the benefit and harm are. It is possible to eliminate this contradiction with the ethical values adopted by the institution and health workers. This view has led to the decision to investigate the impact of the ethical perceptions of healthcare professionals on the patient safety culture. The fact that the study of the interaction between these two variables has not been found is considered a sign that the subject is original. The main objective of the study is to determine the impact of the ethical perception of the climate on the patient safety culture according to health care workers’ assessments. The universe of research is made up of employees of all hospitals located in the Elazığ Provincial Center. In Elazığ Provincial Center there are 4 public-owned, 4 private-owned, 8 hospitals in total. In total, 3,320 health workers are employed in these hospitals. The data of the study was collected by the survey method between 01.05.2017-30.06.2017. The ethical climate and patient safety culture scales are classified according to the 5 Likert scale. The estimated number is 346. The study found that the participants’ ethical perceptions of the climate are high (medium = 3.43; ss = 0.85) and the patient safety culture perceptions are acceptable (medium = 3.18; ss = 0.54). The effect of the ethical perception of the climate on the patient safety culture has been determined to be in a positive direction and vasat. The ethical climate can affect the patient safety culture by 28%. [r=0,528; r2=0,279; p<0,001]

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