KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND CONFIDENCE OF NURSING STUDENTS ABOUT PATIENT SAFETY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY IN HO CHI MINH CITY

Thị Mỹ Hiền Nguyễn 1,, Thị Như Quỳnh Phạm 1, Quốc Cường Trần 2
1 University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City
2 Pham Ngoc Thach University of Medicine

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Background: Today, along with the development of medicine, the finding out and treatment successfully for hopeless patients has great progress thing help to bring health and faith to patients as well as improve the quality of the health system. However, the hospital is not a completely safe place that sometimes hides dangerous risks for patients. Therefore, the safty patient has became the top concern of the Health with the goal of minimizing the disadvantage accidents, removing harms that can be prevented in during caring progress while maximizing recovery in disadvantage problems. Objective: To determine the knowledge, attitude and confidence of nursing students about patient safety at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Ho Chi Minh City. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study on 268 the third- and fourth-year nursing students in the academic year 2022-2023 at University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Ho Chi Minh City. Results: The average score of students' knowledge, attitude and confidence in patient safety was 0.77 ± 0.11 respectively; 3.61 ± 0.39; 4.29 ± 0.58. The study found a statistically significant relationship between the knowledge variable of patient safety and the age variable (p = 0.03) and the age variable (r = 0.14, p = 0.02), and at the same time determined the relationship between the attitudinal variable about patient safety and the specialized variable being studied (p = 0.01) and the variable observed errors on human safety. disease (p = 0.01), besides that the study also recorded a statistically significant relationship between the patient confidence variable and the gender variable (p = 0.01). The analysis also identified a strong positive correlation between attitude variable and confidence in patient safety (r = 0.62, p < 0.001). Conclusion: The findings in the study emphasized that the improtant role of education about updating patient safety knowledge thing plays a key factor in improving attitudes and confidence about patient safety while practicing at the hospital, help to improve the quality of caring patient as well as bring the trust from patients to the hospital in particular and the health system in general.

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