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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Journal of Health and Allied Sciences NU 2016; 06(04): 18-22
DOI: 10.1055/s-0040-1708670
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Awareness of Medication Error, Medication Management and Prevention among Staff Nurses in IMS &Sum Hospital, Odisha

Sailabala Mohanty
1   Assistant Professor, Faculty of Nursing, S'O'A University, k-8, Kalinga nagar, Bhubaneswar, Odisha-751003
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Abstract

Aims: The study aimed to assess the knowledge of staff nurses about medication error, prevention of medication error and its management.

Background: Accomplishment of medical order and medication administration are the prominent part of nurse's job.

Methods: A descriptive approach was under taken and data was collected in the month of March and April, 2014, from 100 staff nurses of IMS & SUM HOSPITAL.

Results: A significant proportion of staff nurses (39%) believed that carefully reading of instruction and labeling of the drug before administrating can prevent medication error followed by heavy workload and high nurse/patient ratio(16%) and insufficient work experience(11%)due to huge turnover were mostly cited by nurses to prevent medication error.

Conclusion: Medication administration is the basic function of nurse. So the nurses should be well equipped with skill and knowledge needed for error free medication.

Implications for nursing management: Error free medication administration process requires a continuous educational initiative on medication error with regards to prevention of medication error and its reporting and the short-term course on medication error should be added in orientation class by every health care organization.

Keywords

Medication error - nurse's knowledge on medication error - prevention of medication error


Publication History

Received: 17 October 2015

Accepted: 27 September 2016

Article published online:
22 April 2020

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