Medication Errors In Nursing

Errors are an innate part of human life. Execution Safe execution of medical orders is plays a significant part role of in patient care. It is also the main component of nursing performance and has a distinguished role in patient safety. Medication errors are a healthcare professional’s worst nightmare and has become one of the biggest issues devoted encountered in today’s healthcare setting. According to the National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention (2016), “a medication error is any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm while the medication is in the control of the health care professional, patient, or consumer. Such events may be related to professional
Recent research has had little success in identifying the specific factors that are associated with high medication error rates but nursing professionals can help to reduce the amount of medication errors in health care facilities by participating in research and educating others on the identified factors associated with medication errors.

Purpose of the
Nurses who are experiencing either (1)low or high stress levels, (2)not being overworked or seriously overworked and (3)do not carry out careless actions will have a low medication error rates.

Definitions:

For the purpose of this study an overworked nurse is defined as a nurse working more than 36 hours in a week or more than 12 hours a day. An underworked nurse is defined as a nurse working

Stress is defined as the severity of manifested physical, emotional or mental tension resulting from factors that alters a nurse’s work performance. Careless actions is defined as not paying attention to what they are doing or simply having no care or concern. Medication error-

Limitations:

Limitations of this study included cost, extraneous variables, nurses having personal issues, attrition rates and lack of participation due to method of return. As more data are collected, the issue of nurse to nurse variation and non-response biases can be addressed empirically. Also nurses rushing through questionnaire instead of carefully reading each question and thinking of the answer choices before choosing one. A nurse’s stress is not limited to their job but can be related to personal issues in their home or with their