Knowledge, Attitudes, and practice of Nurses on Medication Errors in Saidu Group of Teaching Hospital Swat.
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https://doi.org/10.71395/ijhp.2.2.2025.2Abstract
Background and Objectives: Enhancing human health is the primary objective of nurses. Among the most frequent, potentially dangerous mistakes that impact patient care are medication errors. These errors are seen as a worldwide issue that raises death rates, hospital stays, and associated expenses.
Aim is to study the medication errors of ordering, dispensing and administering and to compare the errors occur- ring in the Saidu group of teaching hospital with those occurring in the other health care setups around the word. To identify the most common mistake regarding the preparations of medication. To assess nurse’s errors concern- ing administration of medication. To evaluate nurses’ knowledge regarding Post administration of medication. METHODOLOGY: At the Saidu group of teaching hospitals in Swat, a descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out. At Saidu Group of Teaching Hospital SWAT, 79 critical care nurses in total were chosen for the study and given an adopted questionnaire to complete. Questionnaire was consisted of four major parts, the demo- graphic section, knowledge section, attitude section and practice. Data were entered into the SPSS version 26 software for analysis. And the results were represented in the form of frequency and percentages. For ethics stability, consent form is used and ethical approval was granted from college faculty and hospital committee.
RESULTS: The mean age in our study was 31 in which 68 % were male while 32% were female. 68% of the study participants (Nurses) label the medication cup and few nurses do not label the medication cup with patient’s name or room number. Only 20% of participant did not report medication error.
CONCLUSION: Knowledge about medication process among nurses were good but further need a bit of improvement.
KEYWORDS: Medication error, knowledge, Nurse, attitude
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