The Effect of Flipped Classroom Teaching Method on Medical Error Tendency of Intern Nurses

"The World Health Organization (WHO) defines patient safety as efforts to minimize preventable harm that may occur during a patient's interaction with healthcare services. Patient safety encompasses all areas, from accurate and effective medications to safe injections, surgical procedures, and standards in other invasive procedures. Medical errors, which pose a significant risk to patient safety, have become a multidimensional issue, leading to accidents and deaths, and raising ethical-legal issues.

While there are different definitions of medical errors in the literature, the Joint Commission of Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations defines a medical error as "inappropriate and unethical behavior by a healthcare professional, resulting in harm to the patient due to inadequate and negligent behavior in professional practices."

Medical errors made by healthcare workers are a major cause of mortality and morbidity in hospitalized patients. Nurses, being the healthcare professionals who spend the longest and most continuous time with patients in the delivery of healthcare services, play a crucial role in ensuring patient safety. Teaching safe patient care is a fundamental element of nursing education. The knowledge and experiences gained during nursing education impact students' competence in ensuring and improving patient safety in their caregiving practices. Insufficient skill training and the learning process are major contributors to medical errors.

Nursing students who do not learn and experience basic nursing skills adequately may pose a risk of harm to the patients they care for. Students lacking clinical experience are at a higher risk of making unwanted errors in patient care. Therefore, it is important to increase the knowledge and awareness of nursing students regarding medical errors throughout their education.

Comprising complementary theoretical and practical sections, nursing education aims to provide students with fundamental knowledge, skills, and attitudes in the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains. Today's students, predominantly from Generation Y and Z, exhibit advanced thinking and quick information acquisition processes. They are willing to embrace change and constantly seek new approaches. Technology is a symbol of many aspects of their lives, and these generations are considered superior to Generation X in terms of technology use.