Nursing students’ knowledge of patient safety and development of competences over their academic years: Findings from a longitudinal study

Abstract

Future nurses should possess the knowledge and competences necessary to ensure patient safety. However, little evidence is available on the way in which students learn patient safety-related principles over time. This study explored the progress of a cohort of Italian undergraduate nursing students as they acquired patient safety knowledge and competences from time of enrolment to graduation.

Keywords

• competences
• knowledge
• longitudinal studies
• nursing education
• nursing students
• patient safety
• usposobljenost
• znanje
• longitudinalne raziskave
• zdravstvena nega
• študentje zdravstvene nege
• varnost pacientov