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This study was to explore patient safety for new nurses, examine the relationship between professional identity, patient safety culture, and turnover intentions of newly recruited nurses in China, and validate the mediating role of patient safety culture.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>From August 2019 to September 2021, we collected data from newly recruited nurses in 5 large tertiary public hospitals in Anhui Province, China using a questionnaire survey. Descriptive analysis, a univariate analysis, Pearson correlation analysis, and mediated regression analysis were used to estimate the current status of patient safety attitudes and the effect of safety culture on career identity and turnover intentions among newly recruited nurses.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>The turnover intention of 816 newly recruited nurses was 14.16 \u00b1 3.14%. Patient safety culture was positively associated with career identity (<jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic> = 0.516, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.01) and negatively associated with turnover intentions (<jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic> = \u22120.437, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.01), while patient safety was also a partial mediator between career identity and turnover intentions.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>The results showed that the low patient safety attitudes of new nurses in China should not be ignored. 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