BACKGROUND Medication errors are a national concern. OBJECTIVE To identify the prevalence of medication errors (doses administered differently than ordered). DESIGN A prospective cohort study. SETTING Hospitals accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, nonaccredited hospitals, and skilled nursing facilities in Georgia and Colorado. PARTICIPANTS A s...

Errors in health care settings are common and potentially dangerous to patients. Errors will arise as novice nursing students practice skills in complex health care settings. This article describes one baccalaureate nursing program's approach toward student errors that integrates core competencies described in the Institute of Medicine's Health Professions Education report, the Quality and Safe...

BACKGROUND Older people in long-term residential care are at increased risk of medication prescribing and administration errors. The main aim of this study was to measure the incidence of medication administration errors in nursing and residential homes using a barcode medication administration (BCMA) system. METHODS A prospective study was conducted in 13 care homes (9 residential and 4 nurs...

conclusions finally, in order to prevent the occurrence and reduce the consequences of identified errors the following suggestions were proposed : appropriate training courses, applying work guidelines and monitoring their implementation, increasing the number of work shifts, hiring professional workforce, equipping work space with appropriate facilities and equipment. background although healt...

This study analyzed the attitudes of nurses concerning the occurrence of errors in nursing procedures carried out in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) based on the bioethics framework. This descriptive study with qualitative approach was carried out with 14 nurses from a private hospital in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. Results were analyzed according to Bardins proposal of content analysis. The re...

OBJECTIVES To demonstrate a statistical analysis for testing the measurement equivalence of a patient safety survey instrument. The survey instrument examined in the present study is the Medication Administration Error Reporting Survey. METHODS Surveys were posted to a random sample of registered nurses in the State of Texas, with 435 nurses completing the survey. The surveys contained questi...

The companion paper on nursing home levels of care (Bishop, Plough and Willemain, 1980) recommended a "split-rate" approach to nursing home reimbursement that would distinguish between fixed and variable costs. This paper examines three alternative treatments of the variable cost component of the rate: a two-level system similar to the distinction between skilled and intermediate care facilitie...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to investigate the correlation between nursing workload and nurse-perceived patient adverse events. METHODS A total of 1,816 nurses working in general inpatient units of 23 tertiary general hospitals in South Korea were surveyed, and collected data were analyzed through multilevel logistic regression analysis. RESULTS Among variables related to nursi...

BACKGROUND With the increase of the proportion of old (>80 years), frail people living in long-term care settings, concern about the quality of medication management processes in nursing homes is growing. OBJECTIVES To characterize the organization of medication management processes in Belgian nursing homes. METHOD This cross-sectional, observational study of a representative sample of 76 B...

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...