Peer Education Impact on Student Nurse Patient Safety

The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Ministry of Health define patient safety as the prevention of errors and adverse effects. Medical errors are a global problem and one out of every 10 patients is seriously harmed. The importance of education and attitudes of health personnel for patient safety is emphasised. Providing patient safety education to nursing students is important to provide quality health care. Peer education model stands out as an effective method to increase the patient safety competence of students. The study was planned as a randomised controlled study to evaluate the effect of patient safety education given according to the peer education model on the patient safety competence of student nurses and their attitudes towards medical errors.