Focus groups topics included experiences of accessing health services, cultural competency and safety within health care contexts and overall wellbeing.
Nonetheless, whilst UK and USA have many of the preparedness activities implemented, responses from Nigeria indicate lack of essential PPE and lack of periodical training to ensure staff competency and safety in use of PPE.
In more than half of admitting hospitals (41; 57 %), training was conducted periodically to ensure healthcare workers' competency and safety in donning/doffing PPE procedures whereas 13 hospitals (18 %) lacked such procedures and in addition, 16 (22 %) hospitals were currently working on it (p < 0.01).
7 The Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI) Safety Competency Framework 5 suggests six core competency domains that reflect the knowledge, skills and attitudes that enhance PS across the continuum of care (see box 1).
Enhancing competency in patient safety at entry to practice requires introduction and integration of patient safety into health professional education.
The three competency domains 'managing safety risks' (medical 15 tools, nursing eight tools), 'working in teams for patient safety' (medical 15 tools, nursing five tools), and 'communicating effectively for patient safety' (medical 11 tools, nursing four tools) were assessed by a number of tools for both physicians and nurses (figure 2).
Evaluation of learner perceptions of knowledge in key safety competency areas is important, particularly given the paucity of evidence about how best to evaluate safety competency.
Results suggest a strong correlation between didactic and clinical instruction of QSEN safety competency teaching strategies to enhance students' awareness of safety, thus fostering quality patient care.
As surgical training is evolving and operative exposure is decreasing, new, effective, and experiential learning methods are needed to ensure surgical competency and patient safety.
The purpose of this pilot project was to integrate Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) safety competency teaching strategies in first-semester associate degree in nursing (ADN) students and evaluate student learning outcomes.
