Protect your patients’ safety!

Nursing and Patient Safety is a free course designed to help practicing nurses and nursing students maintain and learn essential skills related to the provision of safe patient care. Many patient safety resources are readily available online but this course is special because it has been created with your learning needs in mind. We have compiled numerous clinical recommendations in one place and presented the material in an easy-to-use format.

Features Topics
  • Written specifically for nurses
  • Up-to-date, evidence-based practice guidelines
  • Based on World Health Organization (WHO) and Joint
  • Commission (JCAHO) priorities
  • Study at your own pace
  • Introduction, 11 content modules, and course evaluation
  • Case studies, diagrams, and thinking questions to support your learning
  • Quizzes to test your knowledge
  • Supplemental materials: resource guide and glossary
  • Personal completion report
  • Hand hygiene
  • Patient identification
  • Handover communication
  • Various topics in medication safety
  • Medication reconciliation
  • Fall prevention
  • Pressure ulcer prevention
  • Psychological wellbeing
  • Safe surgeries/procedures
  • Patient rights

Are you ready to learn how to maximize the safety of your patients?
Follow these three steps to register:



        Fill out this survey.

        Register and get started!


Para tomar este curso en Español, visite http://patientsafetycourse.org/index_es.html
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