The study results of evaluation of nursing students patient safety knowledge and skill questionares

Abstract

Background: In recent years, increasing amount of attention were paid patient safety in health care service.In this study Psychometric Evalution of Patient Safety Competency Self Evalution Tool (PSCSE) by Nam Ju Lee et.al which reflects Korean health care settings and nursing education environment, was used to evaluate nursing students knowledge,skills and attitude toward patient safety. Materials and Methods: We recruit 191 nursing students from School of Nursing,MNUMS between age 18-32 studying 2nd to 4th course. Results: The average knowledge score for nursing students patient safety knowledge and skills was 3.55±0.54, while the average skill score was 3.7±0.42. There are 101 (72.1%) students who are knowledgeable and able to determine the relationship between nursing students’ patient safety knowledge and skills, which is statistically significant (p=0.0001). Conclusion: This result shows that knowledgeable students have skills.