Patient safety education : a perspective of southern Jordan nursing students

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Background: Health care organizations are challenged to improve patient safety.

Establishing baseline data on patient safety education is an effective intervention in this domain.

This study aims at measuring nursing students’ perceptions of patient safety.

Methods: Quantitative methodology, utilising cross sectional survey distributed to 158 final year nursing students and analysed by confirmatory factor and descriptive statistics.

Results: The model produced 4 components and their Cronbach Alpha reliabilities are: Comfort (0.778), Error reporting (0.638), Denial (0.510) and Culture (0.739), while the overall reliability for is (0.845).

While 62% of students have observed medical errors during their clinical practice; only 25% of them have reported an error using incident report.

Discussion and conclusion: It is significant to include Patient Safety in nursing education and training programs.

The inclusion will excel the level of clinical excellence, shed a light on trimming down medical errors, and enhancing health outcomes.