Relation between Nurses' Accountability and Their Patients Safety Awareness at Intensive Care units

Background: Intensive care unit nurses are personally responsible and accountable for theirnursing practice and conduct which may be linked to patient safety awareness. Aim: To assessthe relation between nurses' accountability and their patient's safety awareness at intensive careunits. Subjects and method: Design: A descriptive correlational research study design. Setting:It conducted at Tanta University Hospitals in all ICU nurses (n=350). Subjects: All ICU nurses(n=350) who working in the setting mentioned above. Tools: data were collected by usingnurses' accountability structured questionnaire and nurses awareness' of patient's safetystructured questionnaire at intensive care units. Results: More than half (53.4 %) of ICU nurseshad moderate level of overall accountability, more than half (50.9 %) of there had high levelof patient safety knowledge, majority (85.1%) of them had positive attitude of patient safetyand nearly half (49, 9%) of nurse were expert in patient safety skills. Conclusion: There wasa statistically significant positive correlation between ICU nurses' accountability and theirpatient's safety awareness at p ≤ 0.05. Recommendations: Top management of TantaUniversity Hospitals pays more attention to educational training program for ICU nurses aboutaccountability and patient safety