Perceptions regarding medication administration errors among Medical And Surgical Nurses In Hospital USM
Medication administration errors (MAEs) has been a major global issues as it caused serious health threatening which increase mortality rates, length of hospital stay, and related costs for the patients as well as affecting the nursing professionalism. This study was aimed to identify the factors...
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| Format: | Monograph |
| Language: | English |
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Universiti Sains Malaysia
2016
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.usm.my/62220/ http://eprints.usm.my/62220/1/NUR%20AMANINA%20SOFEA%20BINTI%20SAFAR%20-%20e.pdf |
| Summary: | Medication administration errors (MAEs) has been a major global issues as it
caused serious health threatening which increase mortality rates, length of hospital stay,
and related costs for the patients as well as affecting the nursing professionalism. This
study was aimed to identify the factors that contributed to MAEs and determine the
association between selected socio-demographic and MAEs in medical and surgical
wards nurses in Hospital USM. The research design used for this study was quantitative
cross-sectional survey design by using an adapted self-administered questionnaire.
Ninety-eight nurses were recruited through simple random sampling from medical and
surgical based wards. This research was approved by ethical approval department from
Research Ethics Community (Human), USM. The findings showed that the factor that
causing MAEs in medical and surgical based wards were medication packaging (59.2%
agreed, n = 58) and physician communication (52.4% agreed, n = 51). The items that
was common to cause errors based on the two factors above were medication look alike
(M= 3.79, SD = 1.44) and physician medication orders are not clear (M=3.85, SD=
1.58), respectively. There were no significant difference between medical and surgical
wards in terms of factors causing MAEs with p >0.05 for all the identified factors. Socio
demographic played a role in modifying the frequency of occurrence of MAEs in both
wards. With p < 0.05 in relationship between working experience and factors MAEs,
this showed that increase in years of working experience will reduce the frequency of
MAEs to occur. However, gender and age did not have any affect towards factors
causing MAEs. The study recommended that the continuation of nursing education and
practice of guidelines on medication administration as well as mentorship program
about medication administrations should be applied to ensure patient safety and the
credibility of nursing. |
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