Background & Aims: Medication and medication errors are very important in children, especially in neonates. This study is aimed to determine the factors related to medication errors in neonatal and neonatal intensive care units.   Material & Methods: In this descriptive study 119 nurses working in the neonatal units and neonatal intensive care units of 5 educational hospitals affiliated to Sh...

Introduction: Reporting medication errors leads to saving patients' wellbeing and safety and also is counted as a valuable information source for preventing further mistakes in future. The aim of this study was to determine the causes for refusing to report medication errors from the viewpoints of nursing students. Methods: All nursing students of Arak University of Medical Sciences (n=76) wer...

Introduction: Medication administration process is a critical aspect of professional nursing care. Prevention from medical errors needs awareness and appropriate decision-making and performance. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of using feedback strategies with an emphasis on medication care standards on knowledge of nursing students and their medication errors. Methods: During ...

Abstract Aims and Background: The important  goals of nursing are to provide safe care, prevention of injury and health promotion for patients. The patient's safety is disturbed in intensive care unit for various reasons including medication errors . This study aimed to identify medication errors, to report them and finally to provide  preventive Strategies from the perspective of nurses in ...

Background and Aim: Medication errors make up a large portion of medical errors that mostly happen in hospitals. To prevent medication errors, it is essential to reach an appropriate understanding regarding with their causes and reporting especially among nurses. The purpose of this study was to determine the reasons of medication errors and the causes of not error reporting from nurses’ viewpo...

Introduction: Medication errors are one of the most common types of medical errors. In Intensive Care Units, because of its special circumstances, the risk of such errors is increasing. There are several causes for the medication errors of nurses, including environmental factors. Objective: The current study aimed at determining environmental factors contributing to medication errors based on ...

Background & Aims: Medical errors are one of the major challenges threatening the health system in all countries. The most common medical errors are medication errors (especially drugs) and the first natural result of medication errors is increasing patient’s length of stay in hospital, raised treatment costs, and sometimes severe damage and even death. Materials & Methods: This de...

Background & Aim: Patient safety in general and medication errors in particular are the important indicators of hospital care quality. Risk management is an important and fundamental approach to preventing events caused by medication errors. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of risk management program on the rate of medication errors among intensive care unit nurses. Methods & ...