Abstract
Purpose: The aim of this study is to assess nurses’ perception of medication errors nurses in Maternity and Child Hospital in Najran city, Saudi Arabia. Study Design: A cross-sectional study. Subjects and Methods: This descriptive study was carried out among 72 nurses in Maternity and child Hospital in Najran city, Saudi Arabia. Data were collected through a questionnaire, consisting of two parts: Part 1 covers demographical data, which includes age, gender, educational level, and years of experience and place of work in the hospital. Part 2 of the questionnaire consists of (23) questions about the nurses' perception of the causes, reporting medication error, and perceptions of barriers to reporting medication errors. Data were analyzed by using a statistical package for social science (SPSS) version 20. Results: The results of the study indicate that most of the participants had a good perception of the causes of medication errors. Nevertheless, the data analysis showed that many of the participants had reporting medication errors. More importantly, the participants indicated that there exist multiple barriers to reporting medication errors. Two-thirds of them had moderate barriers to concerns over the consequences of reporting. More than half of them had minor barriers to blaming nurses if patients are harmed, while, about one-quarter of them had major barriers to fear of punishment. There was no statistically significant relationship between the studied nurses’ perception of the causes of medication errors and their characteristics (P value > 0.05). Conclusions: It is concluded that nurses at Maternity and Child Hospital in Najran city, Saudi Arabia, Had a good perception of the causes of medication errors. In addition, there was no statistically significant relationship between the participants’ reporting medication errors and their characteristics except age and years of experience.
Highlights
Medication administration and charting may occupy up to 33% of nursing time in the hospital setting
Every year between 44,000 and 98,000 individuals die in hospitals due to medical errors (Balkhi et al, 2017).the goal of the study is to assess nurse's perception of drug errors
This study was conducted in Maternity and Children Hospital in Najran City, Saudi Arabia
Summary
Medication administration and charting may occupy up to 33% of nursing time in the hospital setting. Improving patient safety with information technology has long been a goal of clinical information systems (Flynn et al, 2012). Errors that occur during the application of medical and nursing interventions have captured the health researcher’s attention over the last decade(WHO, 2017).It is always emphasized that the medication administration process should be free from errors as possible. For this purpose, nurses need to be diligent in discouraging interruptions to prevent harm to the patients during hospitalization(Kruer et al, 2014)
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