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Worldwide studies (e.g., de Vries, Ramrattan, Smorenburg, Gouma, & Boermeester, 2008 ; Soop, Frysmark, Köster, & Haglund, 2008 ; Vlayen et al., 2012 ) established that adverse events causing harm for patients happen to approximately one of 10 patients while receiving health care. Medication errors and nosocomial infections are among the leading threats to patient safety, although many of these events could be prevented with using systematically the best practices. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) revealed the alarming situation, breaking the illusion of infallible health care professionals and launched an onward patient safety movement (Kohn, Corrigan, & Donaldson, 2000 ). In the recent years, legislation and guidelines for enhancing patient safety have been widely prepared at national and international levels (e.g., European Network for Patient Safety [EUNetPaS], 2010 ; Ministry of Social Affairs and Health [MSAH], 2009 ; World Health Organization [WHO], 2011 ). Investing in improving patient safety is one of the most remarkable opportunities for having a safe and effective health care system. Thus, nursing education has a substantial role in securing patient safety in a complex health care environment (James, 2010 ).
Patient safety is defined as minimizing a patient's exposure to hazards and near-misses and, likewise, reducing the risk of unnecessary harm associated with health care to an acceptable minimum (Kohn et al., 2000 ; WHO, 2009 ). Hazard is defined as an agent, an action, or a circumstance that has the potential to cause harm for a patient, whereas a near-miss is an event that did not reach the patient (WHO, 2009 ). To reduce these events in health care, increased emphasis on patient safety in the health care education is imperative, including reforming of nursing curriculum. Several nursing studies (Gregory, Guse, Dick, Davis, & Russell, 2009 ; Henneman et al., 2010 ; Mossey, Montgomery, Raymond, & Killiam, 2012 ) have established the need for change in expressing the truth of nursing students' unsafe practices. The international patient safety guidelines for health care education (EUNetPaS, 2010 ; WHO, 2011 ) highlight the importance of health care professionals having a foundation of knowledge, skills, behavior, and attitudes relevant to patient safety and to similarly underline the importance of practicing patient safety in all their...