EVALUATION OF WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION MULTI-PROFESSIONAL PATIENT SAFETY CURRICULUM TOPICS IN NURSING EDUCATION: PRE-TEST, POST-TEST, NONE-EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ☆,☆☆,★ MANSOUR MANSOUR, RN, PHD*, ALICE SKULL, RN, MSC*, AND MICHAEL PARKER, MSC† The Multi-professional Patient Safety Curriculum Guide was launched by the World Health Organization to develop a patient safety-friendly curriculum in health education. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of teaching related to two topics from the Patient Safety Curriculum Guide on student nurses' knowledge and attitudes toward patient safety. A pretest, posttest, nonexperimental design was used. Patient safety education questionnaires were distributed to a convenience sample of 181 nursing students before the intervention, and 141 questionnaires after the intervention in one university in the East of England. The intervention consisted of two face-to-face lectures and one facilitated group work discussion. Seventy-one responses from pre- and posttest stages were matched. Paired t test, McNemar's test, and frequency measures were used for data analysis. The findings suggest that there are statistically significant differences in the subscales of the error and patient safety and personal influence over safety. The differences in the students' answers on patient safety knowledge before and after the interventions were not statistically significant. Although the student nurses highly commended the teaching delivered in this study, the use of experimental design in future curriculum evaluation may provide a more complementary insight to the findings of this study. (Index words: Patient safety; Nursing education; World Health Organization; Curriculum guide) J Prof Nurs 0:1–8, 2015. © 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. P ATIENT SAFETY IS at the heart of high-quality health care and the fundamental principle for health care providers. Every point in the process of caregiving contains a certain degree of inherent risk and the potential for an adverse event to occur. Adverse events may occur because of problems from practice, products, procedures or systems (Donaldson & Philip, 2004). Ensuring patient safety is a key priority in health care educational programs and is vital if standards are to be upheld and conveyed to developing health care practi- tioners. Nurses are at the forefront of patient care and therefore are well positioned to drive these agenda forward and strengthen the safety net for patient care (Vaismoradi, Salsali, & Marck, 2011). Nursing education is regarded as the bridge to quality and the link to creating the changes needed in the health care system (Sherwood, 2011). *Senior Lecturer, Adult and Mental Health Nursing Department, Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education, Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford, Essex CM1 1SQ, UK. †Medical Statistician, Postgraduate Medical Institute, Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford, Essex CM1 1SQ, UK. ☆ Conflict of interest: No conflict of interest has been declared by the authors. ☆☆ Data sources: Original Research. ★ Author contributions: M.M.: conceptualization of the study, data collection/ analysis, the interpretation of the findings, and drafting of the manuscript. A.S.: study design, data collection, and writing of the paper. M.P.: provided advice on study design, data analysis, and drafting of the final manuscript. Address correspondence to Dr. Mansour: Senior Lecturer, Adult and Mental Health Nursing Department, Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education, Anglia Ruskin University, 4th Floor William Harvey Building, Chelmsford Campus, Chelmsford, Essex CM1 1SQ, UK. E-mail: Mansour.mansour@anglia.ac.uk (M. Mansour), alice.skull@anglia.ac.uk (A. Skull), michael.parker@anglia.ac.uk (M. Parker) 8755-7223 Journal of Professional Nursing, Vol 0, No. 0 (March), 2015: pp 1–8 1 © 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.profnurs.2015.03.002