Patient safety: a specific approach in the Nursing Technical Course

Abstract

The aim was to create an educational booklet to contribute to the practice of introducing patient safety and subsequently provide them to hospitals and health institutions and to develop and apply an extracurricular course on patient safety in a technical nursing course to contribute to the training of a qualified professional. . The study was developed at the Technical School: ETEC – Joaquim Ferreira do Amaral- Jaú - Centro Paula Souza, in the Nursing Technician course involving 46 students from the 3rd and 4th modules from the second semester of 2017, with 36 taking the course and 10 performed only the pre- and post-course evaluations. The assessment of knowledge and skills acquired about patient safety in the traditional curriculum of the technical course and after a specific course on the topic was carried out through theoretical tests applied before and after the course and practical evaluation at the end of the course (OSCE). Student's t-test was used to verify differences between the mean scores obtained in the groups that took and did not take the course, with a statistically significant difference between them. It is concluded, therefore, that a specific approach on the subject brings positive contributions to the development of the competencies provided for in the nursing technician's course plan.