The Nurses’ Role in Patient Safety - Literature Review |Biomedgrid

Aim/Objective: Among the many factors that play an essential role in the patient's treatment and recovery process, safety occupies a vital place. On the other hand, providing patient safety is influenced by equally crucial factors, such as the level and quality of medical personnel's education, experience, working environment, attitude, and others. Nurses have an essential role in patient safety. Therefore, the article focuses on the nurse's role in patient safety and the impact of problematic issues in the nursing profession on it. Background: Each person is a potential patient who needs health services, including nursing care. Nursing belongs to the number of professions in demand and will be in the future. However, in the nursing profession, new problems appear and deepen every year, including shortages, problems related to education, lack of nurse pedagogues, and others. All of these affects or endanger access and receiving to qualified, safe medical services, including patient safety. Design and Methods: The article reviews and describes patient safety problems globally through secondary data analyses published in SCOPUS and PubMed from 2015-2022. Results and Conclusions: Patient safety is not the responsibility of only one link of the medical staff, the doctor, or the nurse. It depends on the activities of each clinic member, the level of education, competence, the knowledge-attitude of the patient's safety, and the shared vision/attitude towards safety issues in the working environment. As medical staff also, patient involvement is essential for patient safety. Their awareness and providing patient education will reduce risks related to patient safety.