Introduction: Medication administration process is a critical aspect of professional nursing care. Prevention from medical errors needs awareness and appropriate decision-making and performance. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of using feedback strategies with an emphasis on medication care standards on knowledge of nursing students and their medication errors. Methods: During ...

Background & Aim: Medication errors are one of the most common medical errors and these errors have a double importance in neonatal intensive care unit. The aim of this study was to determine the frequency and type of medication prescribing errors in neonatal intensive care unit. Methods & Materials: This study is a descriptive-analytical research. A census sample of 71 nurses from the neona...

  Background & Aims: Medication and medication errors are very important in children, especially in neonates. This study is aimed to determine the factors related to medication errors in neonatal and neonatal intensive care units.   Material & Methods: In this descriptive study 119 nurses working in the neonatal units and neonatal intensive care units of 5 educational hospitals affiliated to Sh...

Background and Aim: Medication is a very important part of care and therapeutic services in health service delivery units. Therefore, medication errors in hospitals may cause serious problems in patient care and, even, death. This study aimed to determine the relationship between the type of medication errors reported and patient safety standards in a public hospital in Tehran, Iran. Materials...

Abstract Aims and Background: The important  goals of nursing are to provide safe care, prevention of injury and health promotion for patients. The patient's safety is disturbed in intensive care unit for various reasons including medication errors . This study aimed to identify medication errors, to report them and finally to provide  preventive Strategies from the perspective of nurses in ...

Background & Aim: Drug therapy is an important part of the patient's care process which its proper and safe observance is of standard emphasis and its neglecting may give rise to errors and unrecoverable complications for the patient. Evaluation of medication error is necessary for error management and providing safe care to patients. The aim of this study was to determine the rate of medicatio...

Background & Objectives: Medication errors, as the most common medical problems in hospitals, are recognized as a indicator for determining patient safety. Identification of influential factors is a major step towards eliminating and reducing these errors. In general, medication errors can cause serious problems for nurses. Therefore, in this study, we aimed to determine the frequency of mo...

Introduction: Adherence of standards requires the continuous of education for nurses. Effective educational methods for increasing knowledge and enhancing skills is group discussion. The purpose is to determine the effect of education of medication by small groups discussion on nursing adherence in intensive care units of medication Standards. Methods: In this semi-experimental study the inten...

Background & Aim: Patient safety in general and medication errors in particular are the important indicators of hospital care quality. Risk management is an important and fundamental approach to preventing events caused by medication errors. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of risk management program on the rate of medication errors among intensive care unit nurses. Methods & ...