| Summary: | 碩士 === 大仁科技大學 === 休閒健康管理研究所 === 97 === Patient safety has long been an important issue in top priority in the medical community, of which investigating the status of safety attitude of a healthcare facility is the starting point of such patient safety initiative. The operation unit is a workplace that characterized with extreme high risk and stress for the unit members. Safety attitude the nurses hold in this unit will significantly and substantially affect the outcomes of patient safety due to nurses are the major workforce. This study assumes that nurse heads may have influences by leading behavior on subordinate nurses in the way of how to safely behave. Measuring with Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire (LBDQ), Safety Attitude Questionnaire-OR version, this study collects 171 valid responses from nine hospitals.The data show that safety attitudes varied along with demographic factors. Major findings include that head nurses lead with considerate tend to result in a more positive impact on nurses’ safety attitude in the aspects of overall attitude, team perception, safety climate, work condition, and job satisfaction, whereas those lead with structural tend to place negative impact on their subordiates’ safety attitude in the aspects of management perception, job satisfaction, and perceive stresses. Study results imply that head nurses adopt more considerate approaches to guide or lead their subordinates. This esearch also ssuggests including more samples from varied sources to examine the validity of this research, and second to compare the differences of safety attitude among different discipline of healthcare services, and the last to explore other dependent variables that affect nurses’ safety attitude.
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