Ensuring patient safety is the first critical step in improving quality of care. At all levels, health care workers make decisions every day involving patient safety. Patient safety is about protecting patients from incurring harm while they are receiving health care. It is an international issue. Although safe care has always been a priority, in recent times we have seen a growing realization of how unsafe care affects all the key stakeholder groups in the health care sector. Recognition and open acknowledgement have generated lively discussion as well as a search for solutions to the problem of unsafe care
