Khider Yasmin Ibrahim Abdelkader, Allam Shaimaa Mohamed Elghareeb, Zoromba Mohamed A, Elhapashy Heba Mohammed Mahmoud
Medical-Surgical Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt.
College of Nursing, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Al-Kharj, Saudi Arabia.
BMC Nurs. 2024 May 13;23(1):323. doi: 10.1186/s12912-024-01966-1.
Nurses constitute the largest body of healthcare professionals globally, positioning them at the forefront of enhancing patient safety. Despite their crucial role, there is a notable gap in the literature regarding the comprehension and competency of nursing students in patient safety within Egypt. This gap underscores the urgent need for research to explore how nursing students perceive patient safety and the extent to which these competencies are integrated into their clinical and educational experiences. Understanding these perspectives is essential for developing targeted interventions that can significantly improve patient safety outcomes. The objective of this study was to fill this gap by assessing the perspectives of nursing intern students on patient safety competencies, thereby contributing to the global efforts in enhancing patient safety education and practice.
In this research, a cross-sectional study design was employed to investigate the topic at hand. A purposive sample of 266 nursing intern students was enrolled from the Faculty of Nursing at Mansoura University. The data were collected using a patient safety survey. Subsequently, the collected data underwent analysis through the application of descriptive and inferential statistical techniques using SPSS-20 software.
Among the studied intern nursing students, we found that 55.3% and 59.4% of the involved students agreed that they could understand the concept of patient safety and the burden of medical errors. Regarding clinical safety issues, 51.1% and 54.9% of the participating students agreed that they felt confident in what they had learned about identifying patients correctly and avoiding surgical errors, respectively. Concerning error reporting issues, 40.2% and 37.2% of the involved students agreed that they were aware of error reports and enumerated the barriers to incident reporting, respectively. There was a statistically significant difference between the nursing student patient safety overview domain and their age (p = 0.025).
Our study's compelling data demonstrated that intern students who took part in the patient safety survey scored higher overall in all patient safety-related categories. However, problems with error reporting showed the lowest percentage. The intern students would benefit from additional educational and training workshops to increase their perspectives on patients' safety competencies.
护士是全球最大的医疗保健专业人员群体，使他们处于提高患者安全的前沿。尽管他们发挥着关键作用，但在埃及，关于护理专业学生对患者安全的理解和能力方面，文献中存在明显差距。这一差距凸显了开展研究以探索护理专业学生如何看待患者安全以及这些能力在其临床和教育经历中的融入程度的迫切需求。了解这些观点对于制定能够显著改善患者安全结果的针对性干预措施至关重要。本研究的目的是通过评估护理实习学生对患者安全能力的看法来填补这一差距，从而为全球加强患者安全教育和实践的努力做出贡献。
在本研究中，采用横断面研究设计来调查手头的主题。从曼苏拉大学护理学院选取了266名护理实习学生作为有目的的样本。使用患者安全调查问卷收集数据。随后，使用SPSS - 20软件应用描述性和推断性统计技术对收集到的数据进行分析。
在参与研究的实习护理学生中，我们发现55.3%和59.4%的相关学生同意他们能够理解患者安全的概念和医疗差错的负担。关于临床安全问题，51.1%和54.9%的参与学生分别同意他们对所学的正确识别患者和避免手术差错的知识感到自信。关于差错报告问题，40.2%和37.2%的相关学生分别同意他们了解差错报告并列举了事件报告的障碍。护理学生患者安全概述领域与其年龄之间存在统计学显著差异（p = 0.025）。
我们研究的有力数据表明，参与患者安全调查的实习学生在所有与患者安全相关的类别中总体得分较高。然而，差错报告问题的比例最低。实习学生将受益于额外的教育和培训研讨会，以增加他们对患者安全能力的认识。
