title: Patient safety competence for final-year health professional students: Perceptions of effectiveness of an interprofessional education course.
abstract: As final-year medical and nursing students will soon play key roles in frontline patient care, their preparedness for safe, reliable care provision is of special importance. We assessed patient safety competencies of final-year health profession students, and the effect of a 1-day patient safety education programme on these competencies. A cross-sectional survey was conducted with 233 students in three colleges of medicine, nursing, and traditional medicine in Seoul. A before-and-after study followed to evaluate the effectiveness of the curriculum. Patient safety competency was measured using the Health-Professional Education for Patients Safety Survey (H-PEPSS) and an objective patient safety knowledge test. The mean scores were 3.4 and 1.7 out of 5.0, respectively. The communication domain was rated the highest and the teamwork domain was rated the lowest. H-PEPSS scores significantly differed between the students from three colleges. The 1-day patient safety education curriculum significantly improved H-PEPSS and knowledge test scores. These results indicated that strengthening patient safety competencies, especially teamwork, of students is required in undergraduate healthcare curricula. A 1-day interprofessional patient safety education programme may be a promising strategy. The findings suggest that interprofessional patient safety education needs to be implemented as a core undergraduate course to improve students' safety competence.
authors.affiliation: a College of Nursing Science , Kyung Hee University , Seoul , South Korea.
authors.forename: Jee-In
authors.initials: JI
authors.lastname: Hwang
authors.affiliation: b College of Medicine , Kyung Hee University , Seoul , South Korea.
authors.forename: Tai-Young
authors.initials: TY
authors.lastname: Yoon
authors.affiliation: a College of Nursing Science , Kyung Hee University , Seoul , South Korea.
authors.forename: Hyeon-Jeong
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.affiliation: a College of Nursing Science , Kyung Hee University , Seoul , South Korea.
authors.forename: Yikyun
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Park
authors.affiliation: a College of Nursing Science , Kyung Hee University , Seoul , South Korea.
authors.forename: Ju-Young
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Park
authors.affiliation: c College of Korean Medicine , Kyung Hee University , Seoul , South Korea.
authors.forename: Beom-Joon
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003479:Curriculum; D006801:Humans; D061214:Patient Safety; D013336:Students, Health Occupations; D013338:Students, Nursing
keywords: Competence; health profession students; interprofessional education; patient safety