Akademik Məlumat İdarəetmə Sistemi
IAR Journal of Medical Sciences, vol.2, no.2, pp.169-180, 2021 (Peer-Reviewed Journal)
Background: This study was conducted to examine the application errors of
nurses working in pediatric units regarding parenteral drug administration.
Methodology: The study was conducted with 65 pediatric nurses working in the
Pediatrics Units of Istanbul Bakırköy Dr Sadi Konuk Training and Research
Hospital between June 2015 and September 2015. The data of 38 nurses who
were observed out of 50 nurses who accepted the study and got the lowest score
on the Malpractice Tendency Scale (MTS) were also evaluated in this study.
Results: While the MTS scale total score of pediatric nurses was found to be
229.14 ± 14.64, the highest mean score of the subscales was 'communication'
(22.93 ± 2.41), the lowest mean score was obtained from the "hospital
monitoring and equipment and equipment safety" (40.57 ± 4.20) subscale. Most
of the nurses' medication administration errors, respectively; they stated that the
number of patients (77%) and the excessive working hours (75.4%) were due to
reasons such as fatigue (70.5%), not having enough information about the drug
(63.9%). The positive behaviors observed by the researcher regarding the drug
administration process of the nurses; while nurses placed the medicine cabinet in
accordance with the characteristics of the medicine (97.3%), sent the drugs to be
given as infusion in appropriate liquid and amount (97.3%) and washed their
hands before treatment (94.7%), negative behaviors were observed; nurses did
not take any measures to prevent noise in the environment (100%), did not make
the drug preparation in the treatment room (97.4%), did not consider the dry
powder volume when calculating the drug dose (97.3%) and did not use a
calculator (97.3%) has been. Conclusion: In order to prevent medication errors,
a corporate culture for drug safety should be established, post-graduate training
for nurses should be provided and practices should be monitored.