The Relations of NURSING Student’s Problem Solving Avility, Nurses’ Image and Leadership for Patients Safety

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between the nursing students’ problem solving skills, nurse image and leadership for patient safety by conduting a survey against nursing students of a university. A sample included 241 nursing students enrolled at a regional universitys nursing program during November 3 to 7, 2014. Data were analyzed using mean, t-test, ANOVA, correlation with SPSS 21.0. The mean scores turned out to be 3.36, 3.73, 3.68, for problem solving skills, nurse image and leadership. There were significant mean differ-ences in problem solving skills according to application motivation and a school record. There were significant mean differences in the nurse image according to satisfaction with nursing as major and clinical training. There were significant mean differences in leadership according to application motivation, satisfaction with nursing as major and personality. Significant positive correlation among problem solving skills, nurse image and leadership were found. This findings indicate that in order to enhance problem solving skills for patients safety, it would be necessary to develop programs that account for factors related to improving the nursing students problem solv-ing skills for the patient safety based on the results of this study.