Views of senior nursing students on patient safety

Abstract

The objective of the study was to evaluate the views and the level of information regarding patient safety of the senior nursing students in a school of nursing. A descriptive design was used, with a convenience sample of 81 students at a university of military nursing in Turkey. Data were collected by using questionnaire descriptive characteristics of the participants, their knowledge and views about patient safety. The first three topics included in the concept of patient safety from the students' views are provision of medicine safety (87.65 %), avoiding/following up infection in hospitals (87.65 %), avoiding patients' falling down (86.41 %). The views of the participants about the reporting of an adverse event it is found that that they mostly will inform about it to the authorized nurse in the hospital. These findings show that the participants have a positive attitude towards informing about adverse events to others. This study underlines the importance of education and the need for implementing the patient safety in the nursing education. In order to establish safe environments for health-care and to have lasting effects, the students' awareness about patient safety should be improved. © Gülhane Askeri Tip Akademisi 2013.