The correlation between psychological safety and retention of the nurses in jeddah province, kingdom of Saudi Arabia

This study aims to shed a light on the correlation between psychological safety and the retention of nurses in a Saudi Arabia-Jeddah hospital and set counter ideas to prevent nurses from feeling undervalued or treated differently from their co-workers. Linking their behaviors with how they are treated by their supervisors. The current study applied a quantitative method and descriptive research design using survey created on Google form for nurses in Jeddah province. The current study has population 7344 and sample size is 396 nurses. Data analysis by BMI, SPSS program version 21 applying Chi-Square Tests to study the relation between two type of variables which are independent as (Career development, Job satisfaction, Employees Involvement) and dependent which is employees Retention to find the result. The study reached to following results. Many participants were female nurses, their age in-between 20-30 years most of them have graduated with 10 years of experience. Study found a significant relationship between the psychological safety in nurses and their retention, through addressing the three factors related to nurse’s retention which is organization, direct managers and the unit level then based on result the study reject null hypothesis and accept the hypothesis because p value was less than 0.05. The p value for factor one related to organization is less than 0.05 as well as factor related to organization and Unit level that’s mean those tree attributes highly affect the psychological safety in nursing staff. This study ask hospital administrators to give nurses the recognition they really deserve, and that credit will be based on the department's workload because the degree of psychological insecurity varies in different departments. Therefore, further investigation is needed to determine the level of psychological safety impact in nurses in different departments.