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Background: Patient safety is the cornerstone for better quality health care and nursing education. There is limited evidence about how patient safety is addressed in healthcare professional curricula and how organizations develop safe practitioners.Aim: To assess the practices and perception of nursing students regarding the safety of critically ill patients.Materials and methods: Participants of this descriptive correlation exploratory study were 100 nursing students conveniently from the students enrolled in Critical Care Nursing course during academic year 2013-2014 in faculty of nursing, Alexandria University. The study was conducted in the critical care units affiliated to Alexandria Main University Hospital namely (Unit I, Unit III, and Triage). The first tool was Critical Care Practices of Safety Measures Observational Checklist and the second tool was Students’ Unsafe Clinical Practices Perception questionnaire.Results: It was found that 49% of the nursing students had poor perception regarding their unsatisfactory clinical performance. In addition, 55% of the nursing students have poor perception regarding their poor documentation. Furthermore, 44% of them have poor perception regarding lack of clinical educators’ role competency.Conclusions: Nursing students’ perception was poor regarding their clinical performance, cognitive performance and critical thinking skills and documentation. In addition, nursing students reported that they have poor perception regarding nurse educators’ role competency. Therefore, nursing curriculum should incorporate concepts and principles that guide nursing students in developing caring, safe, competent and professional behavior and should be developed for the nursing students based on the WHO patient safety topics which will focus on patient safety.

The nursing staff's skills proficiency is associated with healthcare outcomes. The cornerstone of any nursing curriculum is preparing graduates to deliver safe, high-quality nursing care. The COVID-19 pandemic has, indeed, revolutionized nursing education with the adoption of innovative pedagogical strategies like blended learning. This research aims to evaluate the effectiveness of video-based instruction to determine students’ performance and confidence levels in selected nursing procedures. It also intends to investigate the factors that influencing students' nursing skills performance and confidence level. This study employed a quasi-experimental research design. This study included a total enumeration of 44 enrolled students in the nursing diploma program. The researcher divided the students into two groups by quota selection. The control group had a face-to-face teaching session in the lab. For the study group, the students recorded videos of the said procedures three times and submitted them to the faculty through the Blackboard platform. The study group scored significantly higher than the control group in different demonstration times. Specifically, the students from the study group got handwashing performance scores higher in both the first, second trials and during the final evaluation than those in the control group. This study concluded how students’ motivation and participation could improve learning outcomes. This blending of web-based training and audio-visual media provides numerous benefits. The mean self-confidence score is significantly higher in the study group than in the control group. This experience illustrates how audio-visual material can be employed to teach other nursing subjects.

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