Percepción de riesgo en alumnos de Enfermería

the objective of this study is to analyze the scientific production that exists about the relationship between the risk perception and the accidents during the clinical practice in nursing students. a systematic search was carried out in the data bases medline and cuiden, and also in the documentary heritage of the national institute of safety and hygiene at work, gathering publications from 1992 to 2010. a total of 89 articles were analyzed. among the resulting thematic fields are: work setting, step measurements, psychosocial factors. as a conclusion, a lack of studies which prove in an explicit way the role that the real risk perception that the nursing students are exposed to exists. so, the necessity to go on in this line is set out, in order to improve the safety of nursing students.