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SURVEY OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT PATIENT SAFETY OF NURSING STUDENTS AT EASTERN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY, BINH DUONG PROVINCE
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Background: Currently, many healthcare facilities face many challenges in maintaining and promoting patient safety. Many studies emphasized the importance of training in internal medicine knowledge for nursing students, confirming that good internal medicine training for nursing students helps reduce medical errors and improve the quality of care. Research objective: Determining the level of knowledge about patient safety and factors related to knowledge about patient safety of nursing students at Eastern International University (EIU). Methods: Cross-sectional descriptive study on 175 nursing students at EIU University of Binh Duong province from February 2024 to July 2024. Results: The percentage of very good knowledge about patient safety was 67,4%, good knowledge was 31,5% and average knowledge was 1,1%. Factors related to patient safety knowledge of nursing students that were statistically significant were: student year (p < 0,001), number of clinical practices (p <0,001) and GPA (p < 0,001). Conclusion: Nursing students' very good knowledge of patient safety was not high. There needs to be measured to improve the patient safety training program for nursing students based on factors that affect the level of knowledge of nursing students such as increasing the number of clinical practices.
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Knowledge, Patient safety, Nursing students
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