evaluation and improvement of drug management process is essential for patient safety. the present study was performed whit the aim of assessing risk of drug management process in women surgery department of qeh using hfmea method in 2013. a mixed method was used to analys failure modes and their effects with hfmea. to classify failure modes; nursing errors in clinical management model, for cla...

background about one third of unwanted reported medication consequences are due to medication errors, resulting in one-fifth of hospital injuries. objectives the aim of this study was determined formal and informal medication errors of nurses and the level of importance of factors in refusal to report medication errors among nurses. patients and methods the cross-sectional study was done on the...

An audience response system (ARS) was used to integrate a nursing classroom with technology. ARS can both engage students and provide immediate feedback. Students (n=60) enrolled in an introductory professional nursing course at a Southeastern U.S. university evaluated ARS use for testing. Literature on ARS use in nursing education is limited, thus the need to determine nursing students’ percep...

We demonstrate the utility of a Bayesian-based approach for calculating intervals of Cronbach’s alpha from a psychological instrument having ordinal responses with a dynamic scale. A small number of response options on an instrument will cause traditional-based interval estimates to be biased. Ordinal-based solutions are problematic because there is no clear mechanism for handling the dynamic s...

introduction: patient safety and its requirements fulfillment are today one of the useful valuation indicators in healthcare organizations. thus, patient safety culture and its promotion are referred to as one of the most important issues raised in the country. the present study aims to examine the effective factors (personal and organizational) in patient safety culture from the point of view ...

background : occupational hazards of nursing jobs are much higher than other jobs and neglecting this fact may reduce the quality of nursing services. the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between knowledge of ergonomic science and the occupational injuries among the nursing staff affiliated to golestan university of medical sciences. methods : it was a cross-sectional analy...

Background and Objectives: Medication error is the most important factor threatening patient safety. While the causes of medication error are extensively researched in the public hospitals, the corresponding data from the private heath settings is limited. To help fill this shortcoming, this paper presents and discusses the results of surveying the medication error factors as perceived by nurse...