Patient Safety in Health Professions Education

This chapter examines how patient safety is integrated into nursing education by synthesizing international competency frameworks and their corresponding measurement instruments. It reviews general frameworks—the National Patient Safety Education Framework (NPSEF), the World Health Organization's Patient Safety Curriculum Guide, the Canadian Safety Competencies Framework, and EUNetPaS—and nursing-specific models including Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) and the Patient Safety Competency Frameworks (PSCFa, PSCFb). The chapter maps core domains (teamwork, communication, human and system factors, risk management, and safety culture) to curricular design and clinical learning, and evaluates widely used tools (e.g., H-PEPSS, PaSNEQ, SAQ, HSOPS-NS, JCAT-NE) for their structure, validity, and applicability across various settings. The synthesis demonstrates how structured frameworks and validated instruments enable benchmarking, identify gaps, and advance a sustained culture of safety in nursing education and practice.