A study for the evaluation of a safety education program me for nursing students: discussions using the QSEN safety competencies.

Background: To respond to calls for improvements in nursing education in Japan, a group of faculties of a baccalaureate nursing programme has made an initial attempt to incorporate quality and safety education for nurses safety competency into three related courses, two sophomore level courses and one senior level course.

Aims: To evaluate the learning experiences in a senior level course on medical safety in order to identify learning outcomes in terms of areas of strengths and areas for further improvements of the course and a system-wide implementation of quality and safety education for nurses competencies in the future.

Methods: Fourteen students who met the criteria had volunteered to participate in one of the two 40-minute focus group interviews.