Content analysis of nurses' reflections on medication errors in a regional hospital.
healthcare
incident reporting
medication administration errors
medication errors
nurse
patient safety
Journal
Contemporary nurse
ISSN: 1839-3535
Titre abrégé: Contemp Nurse
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 9211867
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Jun 2023
Jun 2023
Historique:
medline:
1
8
2023
pubmed:
30
5
2023
entrez:
30
5
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Medication errors [MEs] continue to be an area of concern both nationally and internationally. Sixty-eight reflective summaries detailing reasons for medication errors completed by nurses at an Australian regional teaching hospital during a five-year period were analysed. Fifteen codes emerged from the data that aligned to three main categories of the Human Factors Framework. They were: Individual characteristics such as inexperience, stress and lack of knowledge (5 codes), Nature of the work such as prescription errors, time pressure, miscommunication, poor handover and documentation errors (9 codes) and Physical environment such as distractions (1 code). Individual characteristics were the most frequently reported (51.6%) reasons for the error. Provision of medicine information resources and management of nurses' workload as well as enhancing graduate nurse education with simulation of 'real life' clinical settings appear to be the main targets for intervention.
Sections du résumé
BACKGROUND
UNASSIGNED
Medication errors [MEs] continue to be an area of concern both nationally and internationally.
METHODS
UNASSIGNED
Sixty-eight reflective summaries detailing reasons for medication errors completed by nurses at an Australian regional teaching hospital during a five-year period were analysed.
RESULTS
UNASSIGNED
Fifteen codes emerged from the data that aligned to three main categories of the Human Factors Framework. They were: Individual characteristics such as inexperience, stress and lack of knowledge (5 codes), Nature of the work such as prescription errors, time pressure, miscommunication, poor handover and documentation errors (9 codes) and Physical environment such as distractions (1 code). Individual characteristics were the most frequently reported (51.6%) reasons for the error.
CONCLUSIONS
UNASSIGNED
Provision of medicine information resources and management of nurses' workload as well as enhancing graduate nurse education with simulation of 'real life' clinical settings appear to be the main targets for intervention.
Identifiants
pubmed: 37248770
doi: 10.1080/10376178.2023.2220432
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng