Purpose: This study aims to investigate the effect of a simulation-based patient safety performance improvement education program on caregivers’ knowledge, attitude, and performance toward safety. Methods: This study adopted a quasi-experimental design that applied before-and-after designs for the test and control groups. It was configured focusing on “infectious disease,” “fires,” “falls,” and “drug abuse.” Results: There was a significant difference in knowledge and patient safety performance between the experimental group and the control group. However, there was no significant difference in attitudes toward safety. Conclusion: The results of this study showed that the simulation-based patient safety performance improvement education program is effective in improving patient safety performance. Therefore, it is necessary to continuously apply and evaluate the simulation-based patient safety performance training program to enable caregivers to develop professional prevention and management capabilities within elderly care facilities

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of simulation-based disaster nursing education programs on nursing college students’ disaster nursing knowledge, attitude toward disasters, and basic disaster nursing implementation abilities. Method: This study is similar to an experimental study that applied before-and-after designs for test groups and control groups. It was configured focusing on “earthquakes,” “fires,” “infectious diseases,” and “hospital disaster preparation.” Our simulation-based disaster nursing education program was configured to improve nursing students’ abilities to immediately respond to problems through the integration of nursing courses. Results: The test group that received the simulation-based disaster nursing education program showed a statistically significant increase in disaster nursing knowledge, attitude toward disasters, and basic disaster nursing implementation abilities, compared to the control group. Conclusion: Through the results of this study, simulation-based disaster nursing education programs were found to be effective in improving disaster nursing implementation abilities. Therefore, efforts should be made so that simulation-based disaster nursing educational courses take root to improve the disaster preparedness abilities of college students majoring in nursing.