Deepen your knowledge and reinforce your learning of key topics with a selection of journal articles that support each chapter. Preceding each article is an annotation from the authors introducing its relevance for practice and revision.

Christiansen, A., Prescott, T. and Ball, J. (2017) Learning in action: developing safety improvement capabilities through action learning, Nurse Education Today, 34 (2): 243–247. doi:10.1016/j.nedt.2013.07.008

This research article explores action learning in nurse education to develop the safety improvement and leadership capabilities of final year nursing students and highlights that patient safety is one of the greatest challenges facing health care today and nurses are well placed to find opportunities for enhancing care and making it safer.

Burns, K.A., Reber, T., Theodore, K., Welch, B., Roy, D. and Siedlecki, S.L. (2018) Enhanced early warning system impact on nursing practice: a phenomenological study, Journal of Advanced Nursing, 74: 1150–1115. doi:10.1111/jan.13517.

This phenomenological research explores how the use of Early Warning Sytems can support critical thinking in practice.

Mwachofi, A., Watson, S. and Al-Omar, B.D. (2018) Factors affecting nurses’ perceptions of patient safety, International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, 24 (4): 274–283. doi:10.1108/09526861111125589

This Saudi- Arabian research paper aims to examine socioeconomic and organizational/system factors affecting patient safety and quality perceptions