introduction: caring is the essence of nursing and medication process is an important part of nursing related interventions in the health care systems. medical and/or nursing errors can lead to severe problems for both patients and nursing system. the purpose of this study was to investigate the ethical practice in medication process among nurses working in selected hospitals related to tehran ...

implementation of electronic prescribing system can overcome many problems of the paper prescribing system, and provide numerous opportunities of more effective and advantageous prescribing. successful implementation of such a system requires complete and deep understanding of work content, human force, and workflow of paper prescribing. the current study was designed in order to model the curr...

conclusions the present study showed that the nursing students are not quite competent in the process of medication therapy both from their own and their clinical instructors’ perspectives. this finding shows the urgent need to implement some actions to strengthen the students’ skills in medication therapy. materials and methods a descriptive study was conducted. data gathered using a self-repo...

Improving medication adherence is a critically important, but often enigmatic objective of patients, providers, and the overall health care system. Increasing medication adherence has the potential to reduce health care costs while improving care quality, patient satisfaction and health outcomes. While there are a number of papers that describe the benefits of medication adherence in terms of c...