TY - JOUR
T1 - Patient safety education at Japanese nursing schools
T2 - Results of a nationwide survey
AU - Maeda, Shoichi
AU - Kamishiraki, Etsuko
AU - Starkey, Jay
AU - Ehara, Kazumasa
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Ms. Rika Kanagawa, Mr. Kenichiro Kawabe and Mr. Kazuhiro Takase for valuable discussions. Funding This work was supported by the Japan Medical Association Research Institute.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Background: Patient safety education is becoming of worldwide interest and concern in the field of healthcare, particularly in the field of nursing. However, as elsewhere, little is known about the extent to which nursing schools have adopted patient safety education into their curricula. We conducted a nationwide survey to characterize patient safety education at nursing schools in Japan. Results: Response rate was 43% overall. Ninety percent of nursing schools have integrated the topic of patient safety education into their curricula. However, 30% reported devoting less than five hours to the topic. All schools use lecture based teaching methods while few used others, such as role playing. Topics related to medical error theory are widely taught, e.g. human factors and theories & models (Swiss Cheese Model, Heinrich's Law) while relatively few schools cover practical topics related to error analysis such as root cause analysis. Conclusions: Most nursing schools in Japan cover the topic of patient safety, but the number of hours devoted is modest and teaching methods are suboptimal. Even so, national inclusion of patient safety education is a worthy, achievable goal.
AB - Background: Patient safety education is becoming of worldwide interest and concern in the field of healthcare, particularly in the field of nursing. However, as elsewhere, little is known about the extent to which nursing schools have adopted patient safety education into their curricula. We conducted a nationwide survey to characterize patient safety education at nursing schools in Japan. Results: Response rate was 43% overall. Ninety percent of nursing schools have integrated the topic of patient safety education into their curricula. However, 30% reported devoting less than five hours to the topic. All schools use lecture based teaching methods while few used others, such as role playing. Topics related to medical error theory are widely taught, e.g. human factors and theories & models (Swiss Cheese Model, Heinrich's Law) while relatively few schools cover practical topics related to error analysis such as root cause analysis. Conclusions: Most nursing schools in Japan cover the topic of patient safety, but the number of hours devoted is modest and teaching methods are suboptimal. Even so, national inclusion of patient safety education is a worthy, achievable goal.
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U2 - 10.1186/1756-0500-4-416
DO - 10.1186/1756-0500-4-416
M3 - Article
C2 - 22005273
AN - SCOPUS:80054066711
SN - 1756-0500
VL - 4
JO - BMC Research Notes
JF - BMC Research Notes
M1 - 416
ER -