Clinical education during a crisis lived experiences of nursing students in Sweden during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background: Nursing education entails extensive training across varying settings where nursing students can practice their theoretical knowledge and practical skills for their future profession. Skills in evidence-based practice are pivotal competences for nurses and need to evolve from novice to expert skills. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Sweden had a unique approach to restrictions.

How Can Safer Care Be Achieved? Patient Safety Officers' Perceptions of Factors Influencing Patient Safety in Sweden.

Objective: This study aimed to survey health care professionals in Sweden on the factors that they believe have been most important in reaching the current level of patient safety and achieving safer care in the future as well as the characteristics of the county councils that have been the most successful in achieving safe care.

Methods: The study population consisted of 222 patient safety officers, that is, health care professionals with strategic positions in patient safety work in the county councils. A postal questionnaire was used for data collection.

Patient safety work in Sweden: quantitative and qualitative analysis of annual patient safety reports.

Background: There is widespread recognition of the problem of unsafe care and extensive efforts have been made over the last 15 years to improve patient safety. In Sweden, a new patient safety law obliges the 21 county councils to assemble a yearly patient safety report (PSR). The aim of this study was to describe the patient safety work carried out in Sweden by analysing the PSRs with regard to the structure, process and result elements reported, and to investigate the perceived usefulness of the PSRs as a tool to achieve improved patient safety.

Using surveillance data to reduce healthcare-associated infection: a qualitative study in Sweden.

Introduction: Healthcare-associated infection (HAI) surveillance data can be used to estimate the scope, spread and location of infections, monitor trends, evaluate preventive efforts, and improve practices, policy and facility planning. In Sweden, national point prevalence surveys (PPS) have been conducted twice yearly in all county councils since 2008.

Aim: The aim of this study was to identify key obstacles concerning the HAI surveillance process.

Facilitators and barriers influencing patient safety in Swedish hospitals: a qualitative study of nurses' perceptions.

Background: Sweden has undertaken many national, regional, and local initiatives to improve patient safety since the mid-2000s, but solid evidence of effectiveness for many solutions is often lacking. Nurses play a vital role in patient safety, constituting 71% of the workforce in Swedish health care. This interview study aimed to explore perceived facilitators and barriers influencing patient safety among nurses involved in the direct provision of care.