In the field of medicine, various measures are being conducted so as to prevent malpractice. In basic nursing education, we need to establish management systems to handle the accident cases in clinical nursing practice. In the academic year 2003, Niimi College has introduced the risk management manual for clinical nursing practice in order to handle possible accident cases. We invesdgate the trends of risk management in medical and nursing fields. We also explain the situation that we need to introduce the risk management manual and point out the things we need to improve in the future
