A study on patient safety management's knowledge, attitude, confidence in performance, and practice during pediatric-adolescent nursing clinical practice

Abstract

This descriptive study was conducted to investigate nursing college students' level of patient safety management during the pediatric-adolescent nursing clinical practice courses. This study aimed to provide a baseline data for developing systematic nursing educational curriculum for the enhancement of competence in nursing college students' fundamental patient safety nursing intervention. The participants consisted of 372 senior nursing college students who have had clinical practice at a nursing college in G metropolitan city. The data was collected from December 1 to 28th, 2019 at the end point of their clinical training education in nursing college, and convenience sampling method was used. The results of this study indicated that the ratio of correct answers of PSM-K was 7.30 out of 10, PSM-A was 3.76, PSM-CP was 3.92, and PSM-P was 4.21 out of 5 points. In terms of the correlations between PSM-K, PSM-A, PSM-CP, and PSM-P, significant positive correlations existed between PSM-K and PSM-A(r=.28, p