Abstract
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.