To understand the intelligence and safety behavior in clinical nurses and to explore the correlation between them so as to provide a basis for standardizing nurses' safety behavior.

From February to April 2019, we selected clinical nurses at Children's Hospital Affiliated to Zhengzhou University and the third affiliated hospital of Zhengzhou University by convenience sampling as subjects. The investigation was carried out with the Safety Behavior Scale (SBS) and Chinese version of Resourcefulness Scale (RS) . A total of 414 questionnaires were sent out and 411 valid questionnaires were collected with 99.28% for the valid recovery rate.

Among 411 clinical nurses, the total scores of SBS and RS were (53.04±8.37) and (95.56±18.26) respectively. Single factor analysis showed that there were statistical differences in the scores of SBS among nurses with different ages, work lives, professional titles and education levels (P<0.05) . Hierarchical regression analysis showed the influencing factors of safety behavior of nurses were work lives, professional titles and education levels. After controlling general information, individual intelligence was the influencing factor of safety behavior in clinical nurses.

The higher the clinical nurse's intelligence is, the more standardized the patients' safety behavior is. Nursing managers should improve clinical nurses' intelligence by various measures and further standardize nurses' safety behavior.

Nurses; Intelligence; Safety behavior; Correlation