Table 2. Comparison of patient safety competencies between school clinical instructors and hospital nurse preceptors (N = 144).
| Categories/Factor name | All (n = 144) |
School clinical instructors (n = 38) |
Hospital nurse preceptors (n = 106) |
t | p |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M±SD | |||||
| Total patient safety competency | 4.11±0.39 | 4.06±0.38 | 4.13±0.39 | -0.89 | .376 |
| Knowledge | 3.38±0.69 | 3.16±0.67 | 3.46±0.68 | -2.36 | .020 |
| K1. Concept of the components of patient safety culture | 3.38±0.71 | 3.19±0.65 | 3.45±0.73 | -1.96 | .052 |
| K2. Concept of error and cause analysis | 3.38±0.78 | 3.09±0.87 | 3.48±0.72 | -2.67 | .009 |
| Skill | 4.10±0.48 | 4.06±0.51 | 4.11±0.47 | -0.54 | .592 |
| S1. Error reporting and response to an error | 3.78±0.69 | 3.59±0.75 | 3.84±0.66 | -1.95 | .053 |
| S2. Communication related to error | 3.85±0.64 | 3.74±0.68 | 3.89±0.63 | -1.23 | .219 |
| S3. Resource utilization/evidence-based practice | 3.75±0.68 | 3.87±0.72 | 3.71±0.66 | 1.24 | .215 |
| S4. Safe nursing practice | 4.41±0.52 | 4.38±0.58 | 4.42±0.50 | -0.42 | .675 |
| S5. Infection prevention | 4.39±0.50 | 4.48±0.50 | 4.35±0.49 | 1.37 | .172 |
| S6. Precise communications during hand offs | 4.28±0.62 | 4.16±0.65 | 4.33±0.61 | -1.46 | .145 |
| Attitude | 4.44±0.39 | 4.45±0.37 | 4.44±0.39 | 0.17 | .865 |
| A1. Patient safety promotion/prevention strategy | 4.48±0.47 | 4.45±0.41 | 4.49±0.49 | -0.37 | .713 |
| A2. Responsibility of health care professionals for patient safety culture |
4.57±0.46 | 4.57±0.40 | 4.57±0.49 | -0.01 | .993 |
| A3. Error reporting and disclosing | 4.26±0.57 | 4.26±0.55 | 4.26±0.58 | -0.05 | .958 |
| A4. The components of patient safety culture. | 4.47±0.49 | 4.59±0.42 | 4.43±0.51 | 1.80 | .073 |
K: knowledges, S: skills, A: attitudes