Nurse leadership: Sustaining a culture of safety.

Background: Nurse leaders are essential to manage nursing practices that affect patient safety; therefore, they must create and sustain a sound safety culture in a diverse cultural environment.

Aim: To describe the specific actions required by nurse leadership to enhance the sustainability of a safety culture in hospitals and among a diverse nursing team, ultimately improving patient outcomes.

Setting: Two hospitals in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) were selected purposively, based on the diversity of the nursing team.