The Experience of Patient Safety Error for Nursing Students in COVID-19: Focusing on King’s Conceptual System Theory

Mi Ok Song and Suhyun Kim ()
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Mi Ok Song: Department of Nursing, Nambu University, Gwangju 62271, Republic of Korea
Suhyun Kim: Department of Nursing, Nambu University, Gwangju 62271, Republic of Korea

IJERPH, 2023, vol. 20, issue 3, 1-13

Abstract: Some nursing students experience errors related to patient safety, such as falls, medication administration errors, and patient identification errors during clinical practice. However, only a few nursing students report errors during clinical practice. Accordingly, the present study aimed to investigate patient safety errors that nursing students experience during clinical practice in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. This study conducted in-depth interviews with 14 candidates for graduation from the Department of Nursing at a university in South Korea. In addition, after transcribing the collected data, a directed content analysis for the data based on King’s interacting system theory was performed. As a result, four core categories were identified: (i) nursing students’ perception of patient safety error occurrence, (ii) interaction between nursing students and others, (iii) interaction between nursing students and organizations, and (iv) nursing students’ training needs related to patient safety errors. Consequently, this study identified the patient safety error-related experiences of nursing students during clinical practice during the COVID-19 pandemic. The results suggest that in the future, nursing education institutions must establish a system for nursing students to report patient safety errors during clinical practice for patient safety education and develop practical and targeted education strategies in cooperation with practice training hospitals.

Keywords: patient safety; risk management; COVID-19; nursing education; content analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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