Background: patients safety is a priority for healthcare organization, but errors during therapeutical processes can sometimes interfere with such goal. It is known in literature that most errors occur while administering drugs. Objectives: to evaluate the knowledge of Nursing students regarding administration errors, the need for reporting them, the students’ perceptions about under-reporting, and the factors leading to errors. Materials and methods: the Italian version of the Gladstone questionnaire was administered through SurveyMonkey ® to all Nursing students enrolled for their last year at the University of Milan. Data were analyzed with STATA® 11. Results: 201 questionnaires were analyzed. 79.6% of the students felt they would be able to recognize errors, but less than 70% actually recognized administration errors, in five of the six simulated scenarios included in the questionnaire. 63.7% reported doubts regarding incident reporting, which only in 2 cases was correctly used by the students. The main causes of error were difficulties in understanding medical prescriptions, as well as “look alike-sound alike” drugs. Conclusions: the students provided conflicting answers to the questionnaire; it is necessary to carefully monitor this phenomenon, in order to consolidate their knowledge about administration errors.

Conoscenze e percezioni degli studenti di Infermieristica sugli errori da somministrazione di farmaci : studio trasversale / S. Terzoni, P. Ferrara, A. De Angelis, A. Destrebecq. - In: L'INFERMIERE. - ISSN 2038-0712. - 59:3(2015 Oct), pp. 19-23.

Conoscenze e percezioni degli studenti di Infermieristica sugli errori da somministrazione di farmaci : studio trasversale

S. Terzoni;A. Destrebecq
2015

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Background: patients safety is a priority for healthcare organization, but errors during therapeutical processes can sometimes interfere with such goal. It is known in literature that most errors occur while administering drugs. Objectives: to evaluate the knowledge of Nursing students regarding administration errors, the need for reporting them, the students’ perceptions about under-reporting, and the factors leading to errors. Materials and methods: the Italian version of the Gladstone questionnaire was administered through SurveyMonkey ® to all Nursing students enrolled for their last year at the University of Milan. Data were analyzed with STATA® 11. Results: 201 questionnaires were analyzed. 79.6% of the students felt they would be able to recognize errors, but less than 70% actually recognized administration errors, in five of the six simulated scenarios included in the questionnaire. 63.7% reported doubts regarding incident reporting, which only in 2 cases was correctly used by the students. The main causes of error were difficulties in understanding medical prescriptions, as well as “look alike-sound alike” drugs. Conclusions: the students provided conflicting answers to the questionnaire; it is necessary to carefully monitor this phenomenon, in order to consolidate their knowledge about administration errors.
medication error; administration error; incident reporting; student
Settore MED/45 - Scienze Infermieristiche Generali, Cliniche e Pediatriche
ott-2015
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