Self-reported patient safety competence among new graduates in medicine, nursing and pharmacy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

As efforts to address patient safety (PS) in health professional (HP) education increase, it is important to understand new HPs' perspectives on their own PS competence at entry to practice. This study examines the self-reported PS competence of newly registered nurses, pharmacists and physicians.

Methods

A cross-sectional survey of 4496 new graduates in medicine (1779), nursing (2196) and pharmacy (521) using the HP Education in PS Survey (H-PEPSS). The H-PEPSS measures HPs' self-reported PS competence on six socio-cultural dimensions of PS, including culture, teamwork, communication, managing risk, responding to risk and understanding human factors. The H-PEPSS asks about confidence in PS learning in classroom and clinical settings.

Results

All HP groups

SUBMITTER: Ginsburg LR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3585493 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature