The Turkish version of the Patient Safety Competency Self-Evaluation Tool: A validity and reliability study.

AIM: To test the validity and reliability of the Patient Safety Competency Self-Evaluation Tool in Turkish, which was developed to evaluate the patient safety competencies of nursing students. BACKGROUND: In nursing education, it is crucial to provide students with the necessary professional knowledge and skills as well as appropriate attitudes in certain subjects. It is essential to address frequently encountered problems, to train nurses who can be aware of patient safety and improve the quality of nursing education. A valid and reliable measurement tool is needed to evaluate nursing students' current patient safety knowledge, skills and attitudes and review the curriculum and learning objectives in this context. DESIGN: This is a validation study with a cross-sectional design. METHODS: The study sample consisted of 417 third and fourth-grade nursing students studying at two universities in Istanbul and volunteered to participate in the research. The study used the Turkish version of the Patient Safety Competency Self-Evaluation Tool was used for data collection. Content validity, construct validity, stability and reliability tests were performed. Data were analyzed using SPSS and AMOS programs. Ethics committee approval and permission from the institutions were obtained. RESULTS: Nursing students' mean age was 21.98 (SD = 1.17). The Scope Validity Index of the scale was calculated as 0.97. As a result of the confirmatory factor analysis performed in the original structure consisting of three dimensions, 12 factors and 41 items, it was found that all items were in the sub-dimensions of the original scale and factor loads were between 0.168 and 0.918. Four models were tested in confirmatory factor analysis and Model 4 had the best-fit indices. They were calculated as: χ2/df = 2.38, RMSEA = 0.06 and CFI = 0.91 for Model 4. Cronbach's alpha value of the total scale was 0.941 and ranged between 0.642 and 0.932 in its sub-dimensions. CONCLUSION: The Turkish version of the Patient Safety Competency Self-Evaluation Tool is valid and reliable to measure nursing students' patient safety competencies.

"From my Facebook profile": What do nursing students share on Timeline, Photos, Friends, and About sections?

INTRODUCTION: Social media is a platform where knowledge, experience, and thoughts are shared by society. Like many different users, nursing students also take part in this platform. While some researchers are evaluating social media as a new tool for training nursing students and patients, others are drawing attention to the legal, ethical, and moral problems of non-professional and inappropriate content sharing on social media. Since both sides maybe rightful in different aspects, this study was planned to understand why nursing students usually use Facebook which is one of the most popular tools. AIM: The study aimed to define what nursing students are sharing through their Facebook accounts, whom they are befriending with, whether they use privacy settings and/or regret their shared posts. METHOD: Content of nursing students' Facebook posts were examined in this cross-sectional, descriptive study. The study was conducted with 100 nursing students in a nursing faculty. Each student analysed their own Facebook account retrospectively and recorded their posts on the Facebook Review Criteria Form which was developed by the researchers. RESULTS: Overall, it was found that 40% of the students "sometimes" hesitated before sharing information on Facebook due to safety concerns. Moreover, 51% of the students "rarely" regretted their Facebook posts. Students were using Facebook mostly for check-in (44%), and a smaller portion of them were sharing information related to health (27%). They mostly shared information and photos about themselves and did not share any photos related to patients and patient relatives. CONCLUSION: Nursing students were found to be cautious about their Facebook posts. To maintain and develop students' cautiousness, their awareness should be increased about this issue during their professional education.