As a part of the essentials in achieving patient safety, medication errors are one most financially detrimental problems treatment process faced by health institutions. This article firstly debriefs definition error and its general classification based on process. Wrong dose calculation has become frequent errors, especially among anesthesiology-care providers. then concisely defines side effec...

background: today, nurses are exposed to everchanging complicated conditions in health care services, they provide. to be able to cope with these conditions effectively, they should be competent decision makers. besides, as decision making conditions get more complicated, using critical thinking is a need. the current study was carried out to evaluate the relationship between critical thinking ...

background : in most iranian hospitals, the nurses in the wards prepare intravenous (iv) drugs and unfortunately pharmacists are not involved in this process. the severity of the patients in intensive care unit (icu) heightens the risk of errors. more over the frequency of using iv drugs in this unit is high, so we decided to determine the frequency and types of errors, which occur in the prepa...

conclusions the present study showed that the nursing students are not quite competent in the process of medication therapy both from their own and their clinical instructors’ perspectives. this finding shows the urgent need to implement some actions to strengthen the students’ skills in medication therapy. materials and methods a descriptive study was conducted. data gathered using a self-repo...