Patient Safety

Patient Safety 101

A Practical Guide to
Patient Safety for Nurses

Aderonke Opawande
MSc · RN · CPHQ · CPPS

Coming 2026 · ISBN 9781067627003

The book nurses weren't given on their first day.

Evidence-based. Practical. Written for nurses worldwide, with a particular focus on internationally educated nurses navigating new healthcare systems. Nine chapters covering every core patient safety domain, from human factors to infection prevention to digital safety.

Patient Safety 101 is an evidence-based clinical handbook for nurses working in the UK and beyond. Covering nine core areas from safety culture and human factors to medication safety, deterioration, infection prevention, and technology, it translates national frameworks into practical guidance nurses can use on every shift. Built on primary research with fifty practising nurses and written by a dual board-certified patient safety specialist, it is the handbook every nurse needed and nobody had written.

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Who It's For

Written for Nurses Who Need More Than Theory

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Internationally Educated Nurses

Navigating a new healthcare system is hard enough. This book bridges the gap between your existing clinical knowledge and the patient safety culture, language, and frameworks you'll encounter in the UK, US, Canada, and Australia.

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Newly Qualified Nurses

What they don't always teach you in training: how to escalate confidently, what PSIRF means in practice, how incidents are handled, and what to do when you see something wrong. This book tells you.

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Experienced Nurses & Educators

A structured, evidence-based refresher that works as both a personal resource and a training tool. Grounded in current NHS policy and written to be used in practice, not just read once and shelved.

Why This Book Matters

The NHS doesn't have a knowledge problem. It has a knowledge application problem.

Nurses are trained to care. They are not always equipped with the patient safety language, tools, and frameworks that protect them and their patients when things go wrong.

This is especially true for internationally educated nurses, who navigate complex cultural, regulatory, and system differences with very little structured support.

50practising nurses contributed to the primary research underpinning this handbook
60%rise in NMC referrals involving internationally educated nurses (2022–2025) - pointing to a systemic support gap this book directly addresses

"I wrote this book because I kept seeing the same thing: nurses who cared deeply, working in systems that did not always give them the tools to protect their patients or themselves. This book addresses that gap."

- Aderonke Opawande, Author