Nurses’ Perception about Medication Errors Types, Causes and Barriers to Report it

Authors

  • Nassim Samir Saker
  • Ahmed Mohammed Jasim Shlash
  • Ameer Salah-Aldeen Abdulrazaq

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37506/ijfmt.v15i2.15100

Keywords:

Medication, errors, causes, types.

Abstract

Background: Since there is a continuous rise in the number of patients requiring quantity of prescribed
medications and medical care, there is always an increasing requirement for a complete system that can
carefully evaluate all the medication errors that may occur.
Objective: Determine types, causes, and barriers of medication errors report
Setting: The current study was conducted in Imam Sadiq Hospital - Babel City during 2019 year
Subjects: The study comprised of 100 nurses with at least two years of clinical experience
Tools: The Medication Administration Errors (MAEs) method was used to gather the data by reporting
ruestionnaire that was formulated by Wakefield et al.(1996) and revised by the researchers. The questionnaire
has 65 questions; 15 items are related to the reasons of medication errors occurrence, 7 items concerning
the reasons of not reporting medication errors and 5 items related to the percentage of each medication
error type reported on units which classified into 9 items for non- intravenous and 11 items for intravenous
medication administration errors.
Results: most of nurses reported no mistakes related to wrong route, wrong dose, wrong method;
Whilewrong time, allergic reaction and infusion rate mistakes were more repetitive errors according
to their perception. Fears about punishmentand from patient relatives was most common barriers to report
medicationerrors.
Conclusion: Medication errors is highly priority health system problem; more than half of nurses reported
no mistakes related to wrong dose, wrong method, and wrong patient, most of them indicated that no clearly
definition of medication error was identified, unclear reporting system wasexisted.
Recommendations Assessment and surveillance system should be followed to minimize medication errors
potentiality. Nurses have to always remember that they are responsible and accountable to the results of their
decisions andactions whatever they are.

Author Biographies

  • Nassim Samir Saker

    Nassim Samir Saker, Assisstant prof. Adult Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, University of Warith Alanbiyaa – Iraq

  • Ahmed Mohammed Jasim Shlash

    Ahmed Mohammed Jasim Shlash, Adults Health Nursing/ College of Nursing, University of
    Al-Ameed, Karbala, Iraq

  • Ameer Salah-Aldeen Abdulrazaq

    Ameer Salah-Aldeen Abdulrazaq, Psychiatric Health Nursing / College of Nursing,
    University of Babylon, Iraq

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Published

2021-03-24

How to Cite

Nurses’ Perception about Medication Errors Types, Causes and Barriers to Report it. (2021). Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, 15(2), 4523-4531. https://doi.org/10.37506/ijfmt.v15i2.15100