O ensino da cultura de segurança do paciente na formação profissional do enfermeiro

Abstract

Patient safety has been recognized as one of the main fundamentals for the quality of care and to prevent various adverse events that occur during the care process from causing damage to patients. The World Health Organization, as well as national legislation on patient safety, has emphasized the importance of this theme being present throughout the process of training future health professionals, involving and qualifying educational institutions in this process, so that develop a safety culture among professionals. In this context, the importance and responsibility of the educational institutions that train future health professionals has been emphasized, with the awareness of their students about this problem and for training based on the principles of patient safety. This work had as general objective to know how the teaching of patient safety culture has been developed in the professional training process in a Nursing Undergraduate Course at a public university in Southern Brazil and was developed through the case study methodology. Data collection was performed on documents and through the application of a questionnaire to assess the institutional security culture. The population of this research constituted 66 students of the Nursing Undergraduate Course. For data analysis, descriptive statistics were used for the quantitative data of the questionnaire and for documentary analysis and, collective subject discourse for analysis of the qualitative data of the questionnaire. The results are presented in the format of three manuscripts, the first describes how the subject of patient safety is present in the course curriculum, the second addresses the students' perception of patient safety from some dimensions related to the theme and the third presents students' knowledge about patient safety. It was found that the subject of patient safety permeates the professional training process of that course, but there are evident weaknesses that disadvantage the construction and strengthening of the patient safety culture, and it is necessary to seek strategies that favor the development of competencies related to safety of the patient, creating paths for the training of professionals prepared to provide safe, quality and humanized care.