Patient safety is one of the most important topics for 21st century medical education. The patient safety education has been included in the undergraduate education in such countries as USA, Great Britain, Australia and Japan. World Health Organization (WHO) has established patient safety education guidelines in medical undergraduates and developing countries have been emphasized to promote the project of patient safety education. Due to lack of patient safety education courses, China still need to resort to WHO patient safety education guidelines and refer to foreign teaching methods to explore suitable patient safety education system and training mode.
Nursing staff is one kind of health care professionals who have the most contact with patients and plays an important role in improving patient safety. Patients safety education is a considerable way to raising nurses’ consciousness related to the patient safety. And this paper describes the current status, analyzes the current problems and proposes some suggestions in order to promote the standardization, systematization and scientificization of patient safety education for nursing staff in China.