عنوان مقاله :
A Survey of Nursing Staff’s Perspective Regarding Reasons for Medication Errors
پديد آورندگان :
Maryam، Heidari MSc Student of Nursing - Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences, Shahrekord , Salman، Yadollahi MA Student of Health Services Management - Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences, Shahrekord , Zahra، Rafiee Nursing Department - Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences, Shahrekord , Mousa، Karimifard Medical Emergency Department - Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences, Shahrekord , Hedayatollah، Lalehgani Nursing Department - Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery - Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences, Shahrekord
كليدواژه :
Medication Errors , Nurses’ Perspectives , Patient Safety
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چكيده لاتين :
Background: Health care services are associated with risks for their recipients. Medication errors can lead to many negative consequences for the health care system, including prolonged hospital stay and increased cost per patient. The aim of this study was to investigate the nursing staff’s perspective regarding reasons for medication errors in Ayatollah Kashani hospital, Shahrekord, Iran.
Methods: 207nursesworking in the ICUsof thehospitalwere selected by convenience sampling and their comments about effective
factors in the incidence of medication errors were investigated by a researcher-made questionnaire. To examine the reliability and
validity of the questionnaire, we offered it to 5 nursing experts and necessary corrections were made based on the comments. The
reliability of the questionnaire was also investigated by Cronbach’s alpha coefficient that gave the value of 85%. The first section of
the questionnaire consisted of questions about demographic characteristics and the second section investigated the reasons for
medication errors in nursing-related area, workplace-related area, director of nursing-related area, and drug-related area. For each
item, there were four choices, i.e. none, little, moderate, and much and therefore, the level of importance scored between 0 and 3.
The data were analyzed by SPSS 17.
Results: In this study, the most important reasons for medication errors were related to workload-induced fatigue (mean: 2.37)
in the nurses-related area, high labor-intensity in department (mean: 2.32) in the workplace-related area, insufficient nursing staff
proportional to the number of patients in department(mean: 2.41) in the director of nursing-related area, and drug name confusion
in the drug-related area (mean: 2.04).
Conclusions: The officials of health care systems should focus on the effective processes in reducing medication errors including
appropriate training of the staff and holding in-service training sessions about drug information as well as appropriate planning
for employment of adequate workforce.
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