Quality Patient Safety Module for Nursing Students
March 2023
The Centre for Patient Safety (CPS) delivered an impactful educational session on patient safety to the nursing students of Batch 2025 in March 2023. The session covered crucial topics which helped students to gain a nuanced understanding of the importance of patient safety and equipped them with practical strategies to prevent patient harm. The session was well-received with 140 students from the School of Nursing & Midwifery (SONAM) in attendance.
By equipping the students with the necessary skills, CPS aims to prevent risks and errors in healthcare provision, contributing to improved patient outcomes.
April 2022
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Another Quality Patient Safety Module was successfully organized by the CPS team in April 2022. The course was attended by 150 nursing students from The School of Nursing and Midwifery (SONAM).
The programme content included significant topics like Infection control and prevention, teamwork & communication, error disclosure, and conflict management that made students realize the importance of Patient Safety and how to prevent future harm.
Talking about the effectiveness of the course, one of the students wrote:
"All in all, the sessions were very helpful as they helped us to gain a better understanding of patient safety. I always thought that healthcare workers are always perfect in whatever they do but sometimes even the most perfect person is capable of making a slight error while caring for a patient. After taking this course, I feel that I can try to minimize as many errors as possible while on my duty" - Sehar Aslam-Class of 2024
An increase in student scores was also noticed by comparing the pre and post-tests which signified a significant knowledge gain among the participants.
With this much-needed initiative, the CPS team will continue to make a positive change in healthcare systems by establishing foundation knowledge for nursing students in patient safety so that risks and errors during the provision of healthcare can be prevented.
November 2021
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To equip nursing students with the skills to improve the quality and safety in healthcare settings, The Centre for Patient Safety organized a 5-day module for 2nd-year nursing students at The School of Nursing and Midwifery (SONAM) in November 2021.
The workshop was attended by 140 students and subject matter experts at AKU and International faculty from Johns Hopkins delivered extremely informative and interactive sessions. With a special focus on improving patient safety and providing quality care in healthcare systems, the session majorly revolved around topics like preventing harm, disclosing errors, infection prevention, and system perspective for Quality and Patient Safety.
The workshop proved to be a successful initiative which is evident from one of SONAM's student's feedback who said:
"The patient safety course is one of the most interesting and beneficial courses of my entire 4 years of education where we learned a lot of strategies and concepts to deal with different situations at the hospital side. All the sessions were well-planned and well-organized by the faculty. This course further uplifted the level of understanding about how to deal with adverse events or unpleasant situations at the workplace and also how to prevent future errors"
October 2021
The Centre for Patient Safety organized its 1st Quality and patient safety module for 4th nursing students at The School of Nursing and Midwifery (SONAM) in October.
CPS initially introduced this course for 3rd-year MBBS students which received tremendous appreciation. After receiving an overwhelming response and as part of the Centre's continuous development initiative, the team then organized the workshop for the students at SONAM.
The session focused on patient safety-related topics such as promoting a safe culture in healthcare environments, infection control, and its prevention, teamwork, communication, etc. These lectures were delivered by AKU and some international faculty which allowed the students to learn the concepts of patient safety through the experiences of the top experts in the field of patient safety.
In order to gauge how much the students have learned, pre and post-assessments were also incorporated that allowed us to assess the knowledge and skills of the students at the end of the course.
