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Investigating the Causes of Medication Errors and Strategies to Prevention of Them from Nurses and Nursing Student Viewpoint

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  • Enam Alhagh Charkhat Gorgich
  • Sanam Barfroshan
  • Gholamreza Ghoreishi
  • Maryam Yaghoobi

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INTRODUCTION & AIM- Medication errors as a serious problem in world and one of the most common medical errors that threaten patient safety and may lead to even death of them. The purpose of this study was to investigate the causes of medication errors and strategies to prevention of them from nurses and nursing student viewpoint.MATERIALS & METHODS- This cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted on 327 nursing staff of khatam-al-anbia hospital and 62 intern nursing students in nursing and midwifery school of Zahedan, Iran, enrolled through the availability sampling in 2015. The data were collected by the valid and reliable questionnaire. To analyze the data, descriptive statistics, T-test and ANOVA were applied by use of SPSS16 software.FINDINGS- The results showed that the most common causes of medications errors in nursing were tiredness due increased workload (97.8%), and in nursing students were drug calculation, (77.4%). The most important way for prevention in nurses and nursing student opinion, was reducing the work pressure by increasing the personnel, proportional to the number and condition of patients and also creating a unit as medication calculation. Also there was a significant relationship between the type of ward and the mean of medication errors in two groups.CONCLUSION- Based on the results it is recommended that nurse-managers resolve the human resources problem, provide workshops and in-service education about preparing medications, side-effects of drugs and pharmacological knowledge. Using electronic medications cards is a measure which reduces medications errors.

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  • Enam Alhagh Charkhat Gorgich & Sanam Barfroshan & Gholamreza Ghoreishi & Maryam Yaghoobi, 2016. "Investigating the Causes of Medication Errors and Strategies to Prevention of Them from Nurses and Nursing Student Viewpoint," Global Journal of Health Science, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 8(8), pages 220-220, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:ibn:gjhsjl:v:8:y:2016:i:8:p:220
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