Nursing Care Quality in the Cardiac Care Unit: A Cross-Sectional Study

Health care is inevitably associated with an increased risk of patient safety. Due to the complexity of attitude of care, the safety culture and the care of patients play a major role in safe care.
The present study aimed to assess the quality of safe nursing care in the Cardiac Care Unit.
This is a descriptive study conducted in the Cardiac Care Unit of Baqiyatallah Hospital in 2018. All nursing staff working in the cardiac care unit comprised the sample of the study. Safe nursing care was measured using a tool designed by Rashvand et al. in 2015. Data were analyzed by SPSS version 21. This study was approved by the ethics committee in BMSU.
The results showed that the majority of the research sample (55%) was male with an average age of 42.85 ± 9.66 years and a working experience of 19.05 ± 8.4 years. The mean score of the ethical dimension was 17.47 ± 1.92.
The results of this research can be used in educational planning at the undergraduate level of nursing to educate the students from the beginning of education, especially in the first semester, regarding patient safety, in particular, ethics, and safe care, in order to make it easier to use in the future and to reduce the need for in-service training programs. This develops safe care in healthcare settings.