Developing an integrated curriculum for patient safety in an undergraduate nursing program: a case study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Nursing students' practical training should begin when students can apply core knowledge, skills, and attitudes related to patient safety. This necessitates an integrated curriculum in nursing education that links practice to the theory concerning patient safety to enhance patient safety competencies and quality in nursing care. This study aimed to develop an integrated curriculum that incorporates patient safety factors in the existing curriculum to increase patient safety competencies in nursing students.

Method

A case study approach was adopted to explain the development processes of a new curriculum integrating patient safety in the existing outcome-based curriculum of a nursing college. Based on the existing outcome-based curriculum of a nursing college, a fo

SUBMITTER: Ji Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8447691 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature