The status quo of nurses'medication errors and its influencing factors
LI Nannan
YU Ying
ZHOU Lili
DONG Qiang
QIAO Xueliang
MA Jinying
Abstract：Objective To explore the occurrence and influencing factors of medication errors among nurses,so as to provide reference for the regarding training of medication safety.Methods Using cluster sampling,a total of 761 nurses from 3 hospitals in Harbin City were investigated by the general information questionnaire,the Medication Error Reporting Form,the Nurse Medication Unsafe Behavior Scale,and the Nurse Medication Environment Perception Scale from July 2021 to March 2022.Results Of the 761 nurses,138(18.13%)had medica-tion errors in the past 1 year,totaling 508 instances.The score of unsafe medication behaviors was(58.01±1.32)and the score of nurses'per-ceived medication environment was(122.96±11.00).Logistic regression analysis showed that the influencing factors of nurses'medication er-rors included title,system and regulation,instrumentation and equipment,and related personnel(P＜0.01).Conclusion Currently,the status quo of medication errors of nurses'is not optimistic.Nursing managers should develop personalized medication safety training for different titles nurses,increase drug-related knowledge,patient information,rules and regulations and other training content.They can make full use of infor-mation technology and new types of medication monitoring instruments and equipment to further improve the medication safety.
Keywords：medication errorsnursesinfluencing factorsmedication safety
Publication Date：2023-12-10
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 967-971 )