• Sonali Sahu
• Saiprasad Ray
• Rojalin Dash

The study valuated the nurses' insight towards the influence of Hospital's Accreditation on patient safety related to nursing documentation, patient medication information, and healthcare associated infection. The study was carried out in HCG Panda Cancer Hospital in Cuttack, Orissa. After the said hospital was accredited by National Accreditation Of Board For Hospital And Healthcare Provider(NABH)). This was a cross sectional study and simple random sampling method was used for the sample size of 200 (nursing staff). The researchers achieved self-administrated questionnaire with response rate 76.9 percent, while five points rating scale (Likert scale) was used in the measurement. The participants reported high positive influence of hospital's Accreditation on patient safety with overall score 4.17 out of 5 points in rating scale and most of their answers were between agree to strong agree. The results showed similarity and extend for the most previous efforts and several researches related to highly positive impact of accreditation on healthcare environment, processes, outcome, and patient’ satisfaction. This study's results supports policy and decision makers to increase numbers of specialized national accreditation groups for Healthcare Sector. Additionally, the study's results would encourage both public and private healthcare organizations to become accredited by national or international accreditation groups to achieve higher standard of quality and safe healthcare services.

Accreditations, hospitals, quality improvement, patient safety, nursing

"Effect of Hospital Accreditation on Patient Safety- Nurses Perspective", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 10, page no.d904-d907, October-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2110402.pdf

"Effect of Hospital Accreditation on Patient Safety- Nurses Perspective", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 10, page no. ppd904-d907, October-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2110402.pdf