Patient safety is healthcare discipline that emphasizes the reporting, analysis, and prevention of medical error that often leads to adverse healthcare events. The frequency and magnitude of avoidable adverse patient events when multiple countries reported staggering numbers of patients harmed and killed by medical errors. Recognizing that healthcare errors impact 1 in every 10 patients around the world (WHO, 2009).
Patient safety is a critical component in the quality of patient care. Yet, many organizations ignore the underlying factors that contribute to improved patient safety. Healthcare organizations, especially hospitals, need to allocate the time and resources to assure that these conditions exist in their facilities that create not only monitors to measure quality but processes, encouragement, and resources that produce a climate and eventually a culture that becomes self‐regulating and promotes patient safety (GABA, 2000).So that this study concerned with identifying factors affecting patient's safety in health care working conditions as perceived by nurses.