A SURVY ON THE NURSING-RELATED FACTORS INFLUENCING MEDICATION ERROR INCIDENCE

Medication errors are one of the most common causes of preventable health
care Errors. Nursing personnel play an important role in patients care, and medication errors are
serious threats for patient safety and nursing career. This study has been done in 2010 in order to
evaluate nursing-related factors influencing medication error incidence in Sanandaj University of
Medical Science University Hospitals.
Materials & Methods: This research is a descriptive analytical study in which 100 nurses participated.
To collect the data, a two dimensional questionnaire was used. It included first demographic
information (age, years of experience, and educational status) and second, questions about medication
error in 5 compasses. The data were analyzed with SPSS software (version 16), Chi-square and
descriptive tests.
Results: The results showed that all of the participants have committed medication error.19% of the
nurses had 3 errors, 13%, 1 error. Most common medication errors were taking wrong patient, taking
wrong drug, mal- prescription, errors in dose and time of the drugs.
Conclusion: Team work and nursing index (age, educations) are important factors in Medication
errors, so to avoid the medication errors, special attention should be paid for the quality of team and
organizational work