Patient Safety In Nursing Care

Patient safety is vital in quality nursing care. According to Murray (2017), safety is a key component of health care quality and nurses can significantly influence the quality of care provided because they are the front line carer, and the last line of defence against medication errors. Hastings (2014) defined patient safety as “freedom from injury” in clinical settings and further explained that an event or error that happened within an organisation may affect patient or staff safety; therefore, there must be evidence-based management to reduce the errors and events. Kim, Lyder, McNeese-Smith, Leach, and Needleman (2015) stated that patient safety includes prevention and avoidance of the medical errors and adverse outcomes, protection of