Abstract
Quality improvement and patient safety are top priorities of medical institutions. Patient safety education for nurses has gradually been incorporated into not only in-service continuing education but also basic nursing education. However, issues such as collaboration with educational and clinical institutions and training of human resources engaged in patient safety education still persist. Therefore, we discussed the implementation of patient safety education for nurturing student nurses into experts through the following pioneer efforts: 1) collaboration between the nursing staff and faculty during clinical training, 2) drafting a basic nursing education curriculum that incorporates the concept of patient safety in the educational content of multiple specialized subjects, and 3) a general risk manager’s intervention in education of both student and service-continuing nurses.
It is necessary to recognize patient safety education as an important element of nursing professional education and work toward building a continuous and seamless educational system for nurturing student nurses into expert nurses. Thus, it is essential that the faculty, nursing staff-in-charge of clinical training, general risk managers, and nurse managers share knowledge and skills of patient safety education and closely collaborate to build a system for educating nursing students and staff.
This report is the summary of the panel discussion 10 of the 11th annual congress of Japanese Society for Quality and Safety in Healthcare.
