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Medication Errors and their Management Methods by Nurses
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ABOLFAZL DEHBANIZADEH, MARZIYEH HOSSEINI*
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Nursing errors, especially medication errors, are a global problem that causes deaths and increases in treatment costs
annually. In order to ensure patient safety, the issue of identifying and preventing errors is of particular importance.
The aim of this study was to determine the level of drug errors in hospital nurses in Yasuj. This was a descriptiveanalytic
study. The statistical population included all nurses (161 people) employed in Yasuj Shahid Beheshti Hospital,
19 questionnaires, and researcher made by reliability and validity (CVR = 0.71, CVI = 0.79). Cronbach's alpha = 0.81).
Data were analyzed by SPSS software version 16. According to the findings of this study, 86.6% of nurses had drug
errors. The delivery of the drug was delayed or sooner than the prescribed time with 302 errors (23.89%) and the
lowest frequency was given to the wrong patient with 12 (0.95%). There was a meaningful relationship between sexes
with the number of drug errors.According to the findings of the research on the high medication errors and the
consequences of drug errors by nurses, it should be mentioned that the development of continuing education
programs to increase the knowledge of the personnel on the principles of proper administration of the drug, as well
as the creation of appropriate space and providing incentive strategies Honest report of errors by staff is essential.
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Methamphetamine, Substance, Parents, Personality, Millon clinical multiaxial inventory, Traits
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https://doi.org/10.31838/ijpr/2018.10.04.038
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