Patient safety competency and educational needs of nursing educators in South Korea.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Nursing educators must be qualified to teach patient safety to nursing students to ensure patient safety in the clinical field. The purpose of this study was to assess nursing educators' competencies and educational needs for patient safety in hospitals and nursing schools.

Method

A mixed-methods sequential explanatory design employed a survey and focus group interview with nursing educators (school clinical instructors and hospital nurse preceptors). Thirty-eight questionnaires filled out by clinical instructors from six four-year nursing universities and 106 questionnaires from nurse preceptors from three high-level general hospitals in the Seoul metropolitan area were analyzed to obtain quantitative data. Focus group interviews were conducted among six clinical

SUBMITTER: Jang H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5584796 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature