are all time high. The system of treatment is becoming more hi-tech and sophisticated which isvulnerable to the errors at same time. Effective medication error reporting a necessary tool preventand reduce its occurrence. This study aimed assess knowledge attitude regarding erroramong nursing students.Methods: A Descriptive approach was adopted for study. By Stratified Random sampling 125 Nursin...

Background and Objectives: Not reporting medication errors by the clinical staff prevent identification of type and frequency of these errors, and thereby developing effective strategies to alleviate the problem. Most investigation of barriers to medication error reporting comes from public hospitals. This study aimed to explore the issue from a nurse’s perspective in private hospital. Methods...

As a historical era, postmodernism signifies transition from inflexible and logical positivism and entry into a new view to science. Postmodernism offers a number of nursing practice revise that including humanism, conditions, and borderless, multi-voice, view, and multicultural world, changes in meaning of knowledge, and life-long learning. Demographic changes, technological advances, ethnic a...

. 12.00 background: medication therapy is one of the most complex and high-risk clinical processes that nurses deal with. medication error is the most common type of error that brings about damage and death to patients, especially pediatric ones. however, these errors are preventable. identifying and preventing undesirable events leading to medication errors are the main risk management activit...

No matter the area of science, fundamental concepts are inexorably linked with instrumentation used to obtain measurements of them. In nursing science (Ventura, Hinshaw, & Atwood, 1981) as in all sciences, measurements should be faithful representations of characteristics of interest that gauge quantity with minimal error and enable examination of relationships and testing of hypotheses arising...

This issue brief presents the findings of a national survey whose purpose was to describe the prevalence of evidence-based safe medication practices, including the use of voluntary medication error reporting, in the nation’s smallest hospitals. The survey included questions related to all phases of the medication use process— prescribing, documenting, dispensing by a pharmacist (medication acqu...

Policies and procedures exist to safeguard patients and protect them from harm; however, a deeper understanding as to why a particular sentinel event occurred and less focus on the individual who made the error can have positive outcomes. Nursing leaders should strive to maintain a just culture to promote reporting and learning in their facility, thereby creating a culture of safety for patients.

While nurses can and do behave as intentional political agents, claims that nurses collectively do (empiric), should (normative) or must (regulatory) act to advance political objectives lack credibility. This paper challenges the coherence and legitimacy of political demands placed upon nurses. It is not suggested that nurses ought not to contribute to political discourse and activity. That wou...