Background: Nurses’ have a responsibility to provide patient-safe care and work to prevent healthcare damages. Improvements in patient safety have been made, but events still occur that lead to deficiencies in patient safety every year. Problem: There are events that lead to compromised patient safety in nursing care being documented, but not how the nurses have experience of what the cause is. In order to reduce the knowledge gap, insights in nurses' experiences of attending to patient safety are needed. Aim: The aim is to describe nurses´ experiences of patient safety care. Method: Systematic literature review. Result: In order to perform nursing with high patient safety, communication, knowledge development, cooperation and leadership were required. The two central parts were developed, and which affected the safety of the nurses' experiences was the time for nursing and the care staff's competence. Conclusion: The nurses' experience of patient safety in nursing varied. Time and competence affect the possibilities of fulfill safe care for the patients.