Nursing studentsʹ perspectives and suggestions on patient safety—Implications for developing the nursing education curriculum in Iran

SummaryBackground g studentsʹ close involvement in knowledge development about patient safety will enhance the integrity of the current content of nursing education and pave the way towards developing a nursing curriculum that facilitates achieving a safer health-care system. ives tudy explores nursing studentsʹ perspectives and suggestions on developing patient safety aspects of the nursing curriculum in the context of Iranian culture. itative methodology involving three focus groups with a purposive sample of 18 nursing students from a large Iranian nursing school, utilising directed semi-structured interviews generated data, which was analysed using the content analysis process. s in themes emerged from content analysis: (1) “involving students fully in patient care” with subthemes ‘building a trusting relationship between education and practice’, and ‘promoting inter-dependence between health-care providers’, and (2) “structuring patient safety education” with subthemes ‘transforming nursing routines to evidence-based care’, and ‘connecting care to patient safety issues’. sions tent of studentsʹ involvement in clinical practice and clinical nursesʹ roles in student education in practice requires clarification. The curriculum needs to incorporate patient safety aspects throughout, and include interdisciplinary education to ensure compliance with patient safety policies. Moreover, successful implementation of such a curriculum necessitates cooperation from nursing practice and instructors to meet nursing studentsʹ expectations.