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- Title
Self-reported confidence in patient safety competencies among Chinese nursing students: a multi-site cross-sectional survey.
- Authors
Huang, Fei Fei; Shen, Xiao Ying; Chen, Xue Lei; He, Li Ping; Huang, Su Fen; Li, Jin Xiu
- Abstract
Background: Nursing interns are an important backup force for nursing professionals, so efforts to strengthen their patient safety (PS) competencies are a major priority. To do so requires assessing the strengths and weaknesses of Chinese nursing students' PS competence and identifying the influencing factors. Methods: This was a multi-site, cross-sectional, web-based study that was carried out between September 2018 and January 2019. A national online survey was completed by 732 Chinese undergraduate nursing students. Our primary outcome factor was the Health Professional Education in Patient Safety Survey score. We also collected socio-demographic and clinical practice-related characteristics as independent variables. Multiple stepwise linear regression was performed to identify predictors of PS competence. Results: Chinese undergraduate nursing students were fairly confident in their clinical safety skills but less confident in what they learned about sociocultural or context-dependent aspects of PS and speaking up about PS, including effective communication and understanding human and environmental factors. Less than half of the students felt that they could approach someone engaging in unsafe practice and were reluctant to voice concern about adverse events. We observed significant differences in PS competence between students from different regions, across different PS learning styles (self-study and classroom theoretical study), with different self-assessed PS competence levels, and with experiences of adverse events (p < 0.05). These factors accounted for almost 15% of the total variance in PS competence scores (adjusted R2 = 0.15, p = 0.00). Conclusions: The results of this study provide a better understanding of PS competence among final-year nursing students in China. Our findings may help nursing educators or healthcare organizations to cultivate and improve PS competence by establishing documented policies or by improving the efficacy of intervention.
- Subjects
CHINA; NURSING students; CHINESE students; PATIENT safety; MEDICAL personnel as patients; CLINICAL competence
- Publication
BMC Medical Education, 2020, Vol 20, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1472-6920
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/s12909-020-1945-8