Teaching patient safety in the COVID-19 pandemic: perception of nursing students
Enseñanza de la seguridad del paciente en la pandemia de COVID-19: percepción de los estudiantes de enfermería
Ensino de segurança do paciente na pandemia da covid-19: percepção de estudantes de enfermagem
Ana Carolina Simões Pereira; Taynara de Oliveira Farias Batista; Maria Antonia Ramos Costa; Laura Misue Matsuda; Dandara Novakowski Spigolon; Verusca Soares de Souza
Abstract
Objective: To apprehend the perception of technical and undergraduate nursing students about the teaching of patient safety competencies in the pandemic of COVID-19.
Method: Qualitative study, conducted in 2021, with technical and undergraduate nursing students from Paraná, through individual interviews. The content analysis technique was used.
Results: The following categories emerged: Understanding of the concept of patient safety enhanced by clinical practice; Attitudes and feelings towards near miss, adverse events and unsafe practice and; Negative reflexes of the COVID-19 pandemic on patient safety teaching.
Conclusion and implications for practice: The teaching of patient safety competencies was perceived by students with negative feelings due to the experience of near misses, adverse events and unsafe practices. Due to the pandemic of COVID-19, they reported fragmentation in the teaching of the subject under study, distance from practice and, consequently, academic and professional insecurity. Further discussion of the teaching of patient safety competencies during the pandemic is indispensable to the quality of training and professional performance.
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Objetivo: Apreender a percepção de discentes de curso técnico e superior de Enfermagem sobre o ensino das competências de segurança do paciente na pandemia da COVID-19.
Método: Estudo qualitativo, realizado em 2021, com estudantes de Enfermagem de nível técnico e superior do Paraná, por meio de entrevistas individuais. Utilizou-se técnica de análise de conteúdo.
Resultados: Emergiram as categorias: Compreensão do conceito segurança do paciente potencializada pela prática clínica; Atitudes e sentimentos frente ao near miss, evento adverso e prática insegura e; Reflexos negativos da pandemia da COVID-19 no ensino da segurança do paciente.
Conclusão e implicações para a prática: O ensino das competências de segurança do paciente foi apreendido pelos estudantes com sentimentos negativos pela vivência de near miss, eventos adversos e práticas inseguras. Devido à pandemia da COVID-19, referiram fragmentação no ensino do tema em estudo, distanciamento da prática e; consequentemente, insegurança acadêmica e profissional. O aprofundamento da discussão do ensino das competências de segurança do paciente durante a pandemia é indispensável à qualidade de formação e atuação profissional.
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Submitted date:
04/08/2022
Accepted date:
05/12/2022