Abstract
BackgroundIndividual and organizational factors correlate with perceived barriers to error reporting. Understanding medication administration errors (MAEs) reduces confusion about error definitions, raises perceptions of MAEs, and allows healthcare providers to report perceived and identified errors more frequently. Therefore, an emphasis must be placed on medication competence, including medication administration knowledge and decision-making. It can be helpful to utilize an organizational approach, such as collaboration between nurses and physicians, but this type of approach is difficult to establish and maintain because patient-safety culture starts at the highest levels of the healthcare organization. This study aimed to examine the canonical correlations of an individual self-efficacy/bottom-up organizational approach variable set with perceived barriers to reporting MAEs among nurses.MethodsWe surveyed 218 staff nurses in Korea. The measurement tools included a questionnaire on knowledge of high-alert medication, nursing decision-making, nurse-physician collaboration satisfaction, and barriers to reporting MAEs. Descriptive statistics, t-tests, analysis of variance (ANOVA), Pearson’s correlation coefficient, and canonical correlations were used to analyze results.ResultsTwo canonical variables were significant. The first variate indicated that less knowledge about medication administration (− 0.83) and a higher perception of nurse-physician collaboration (0.42) were related to higher disagreement over medication error (0.64). The second variate showed that intuitive clinical decision-making (− 0.57) and a higher perception of nurse-physician collaboration (0.84) were related to lower perceived barriers to reporting MAEs.ConclusionsEnhancing positive collaboration among healthcare professionals and promoting analytic decision-making supported by sufficient knowledge could facilitate MAE reporting by nurses. In the clinical phase, providing medication administration education and improving collaboration may reduce disagreement about the occurrence of errors and facilitate MAE reporting. In the policy phase, developing an evidence-based reporting system that informs analytic decision-making may reduce the perceived barriers to MAE reporting.
Highlights
Individual and organizational factors correlate with perceived barriers to error reporting
Because under-reporting errors is a critical limitation to analyzing the process behind medication administration errors (MAEs) [3], understanding perceived barriers to error reporting is crucial in promoting reporting behavior
Several studies have shown individual and organizational factors for enhancing error- reporting [2, 3], and one study [4] proposed a conceptual model for determinants of MAE reporting with an individual perceived self-efficacy and organizational factors such as reporting process capability and support, organizational culture, management support, and regulatory authority
Summary
Individual and organizational factors correlate with perceived barriers to error reporting. Understanding medication administration errors (MAEs) reduces confusion about error definitions, raises perceptions of MAEs, and allows healthcare providers to report perceived and identified errors more frequently. This study aimed to examine the canonical correlations of an individual self-efficacy/bottomup organizational approach variable set with perceived barriers to reporting MAEs among nurses. Because under-reporting errors is a critical limitation to analyzing the process behind medication administration errors (MAEs) [3], understanding perceived barriers to error reporting is crucial in promoting reporting behavior. Understanding MAEs reduces confusion about error definitions [5], raises levels of clinical reasoning about whether the error was harmful [6], and allows more frequent reporting of perceived and identified errors by healthcare providers [5]. Specific knowledge about high-alert medication, which is high -risk medication for nurses’ MAEs [12], can serve as the basic competence level when judging what is an MAE and deciding whether to report it
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