TYPES OF NURSING ERRORS IN GASTRIC TUBE INSERTION PROCEDURE IN PRETERM INFANTS IN NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT, SANANDAJ, 2013

Nurses are responsible for a noticeable number of invasive procedures of
hospitalized neonates in ICU, and recently, making error has risen in guarding endangered infants. Nurse
has maximum relational friction surface, care and therapeutic contact with human client; therefore, they
could be one of the most problematic parts of the management of human errors.
Materials and Methods: The purpose of this study is determining the types of nursing errors in gastric
tube insertion procedure of preterm infants in neonatal intensive care units in Sanandaj in 2013.
In this descriptive study, 28 employed nurses were chosen in neonatal intensive care units in Besat and
Tamin Ejtemaei hospitals. The data were gathered through a researcher-made checklist by direct
observations of the nurses. Each nurse was observed four times. The data were analyzed through SPSS
software version 13.
Results: The findings revealed that in all observations the most common error in gastric tube insertion
of preterm infants is related to implementation stage, registration stage, and preparation stage
respectively.
Conclusions: The results showed that the most common type of nursing error in gastric tube insertion
of preterm infants occurs in implementation stage. These errors can be prevented to a large degree by
changing and improving the educational process and through an educational planning by officials of
nursing education