Medication errors in chemotherapy occur frequently and have a high potential to cause considerable harm. IV infusion errors, which usually involve high-risk medications delivered directly into the patient's bloodstream, have been identified as having the greatest potential for harm. IV infusion programming errors have a greater likelihood of causing injury or death. Nurses must strive to keep p...

Background: Nursing duties in a haemodialysis setting can be performed using two main models which are primary and team nursing. The study sought to determine the most appropriate nursing care model in an acute haemodialysis unit (AHU) of a large metropolitan teaching hospital where primary nursing was replaced by the team nursing model on a trial basis. Methods: Standard questionnaires were ad...

chemotherapy medication errors may lead to potentially harmful consequences while most of them could be preventable. this study aims to determine the incidence and type of drug handling and administration errors among the nurses and to identify possible contributing factors. setting of the study was a teaching hospital affiliated to shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran, iran. ...

Background: Medical errors, including human are one of the most important and sensitive issues in health system. Human errors can endanger patients’ life during service provision. Therefore, healthcare workers should ensure safety by reducing errors. This study aimed to identify evaluate among nurses working at an Iranian Hospital. Methods: is a cross-sectional which was carried out using SHERP...