Investigation and analysis of clinical nurses' medication safety
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1674-2907.2013.24.008
- VernacularTitle:对临床护士安全用药的调查与分析
- Author:
Xiao-Lan WANG
1
;
Zhen REN
;
Hui-Cong LI
;
Qiao-Ya WANG
;
Meng LIU
Author Information
1. 100069,首都医科大学附属北京佑安医院国际医疗部
- Keywords:
Data collection;
Clinical nurse;
Medication safety
- From:
Chinese Journal of Modern Nursing
2013;19(24):2911-2913
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective To investigate the situation and influencing factors of clinical nurses' medication safety.Methods A total of 193 female clinical nurses were chosen in June 2012,and then investigated with self-designed questionnaire of their medication knowledge,time to cause medication errors and influencing factors of medication errors.Chart analysis was used for investigation results.Results Despite of different educationalbackgrounds,all nurses,especially nurses with 2-5 years of working experiences,agreed that medicatioulabelsincluding drugs,drug containers like injection and medicine cup and other solutions should be clear,with statistically significant differences compared to other nurses.68.9％ nurses believed that the most possible error was during preparation process,64.7％ believed during delivery process,and nurses with 2-5 years of working experiences thought errors could occur in both processes.193 nurses believed the influencing factors were too busy (70.9％),too fuzzy handwriting for recognition (43.5％),similar drug names (65.1％) and too many drugs (54.4％).Nurses with different educations and experiences had different cognition of this question.Conclusions Unclear medication and drug labels as well as too busy are the most important factors of medication unsafety.Educational backgrounds and working experiences lead to the needs of revising clinical medication process,and medication errors should be resolved systematically.
