ERSUN, Ayşe E.Ü. - Hemşirelik Fakültesi - Çocuk Sağlığı ve Hastalıkları Hemşireliği AD, Turkey , BAŞBAKKAL, Zümrüt E.Ü. - Hemşirelik Fakültesi - Çocuk Sağlığı ve Hastalıkları Hemşireliği AD, Turkey , YARDIMCI, Figen E.Ü. - Hemşirelik Fakültesi - Çocuk Sağlığı ve Hastalıkları Hemşireliği AD, Turkey , MUSLU, Gonca Muğla Sıtkı Koçman Üniversitesi - Fethiye Sağlık Yüksekokulu, Turkey , BEYTUT, Dilek İzmir Üniversitesi - Sağlık Yüksekokulu, Turkey

A STUDY OF THE MALPRACTICE TRENDS IN PEDIATRIC NURSES

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Objective: Patient safety refers to all measures taken by health institutions and medical crew in order to prevent damage occurred during medical services. This study aims to investigate the malpractice trends in pediatric nurses. Methods: The study universe consisted of nurses in two hospital. While all the nurses were targeted for participation, the study sample included only 123 nurses (80%) consented to participate. The study was designed as a cross sectional descriptive study and the study data were collected between 15.03.2011 and 15.07.2011 with a questionnaire form and ‘Malpractice Trend Scale in Nursing’ which contains five subdimensions (medication and transfusion malpractices, fall injuries, hospital infections, patient monitoring, communication and material safety) and 49 items. The lowest score was noted to be 45 and the highest was reported to be 245. The data evaluation was carried out with prevalence scales, student t test in binary variables and variance analysis in multiple variables. Results: 61% of the pediatric nurses participated in the study were found to experience medical malpractices. It was further stated that 51.5% of the nurses witnessed malpractices of doctors while 48.5% of the participants reported malpractices committed by their colleagues. The most common malpractice was noted to be medication errors (57.8%). The study results illustrated that 27.7% of the nurses committed medication errors and the most common medication error was reported to be administration of the wrong dose (67.8%). The average score of the scale was 227.12±15.06 (min. 171, max. 245). The study results suggested a statistically meaningful relation between the units of pediatric nurses and total scores of malpractice trends. None of the nurses did not complete the event submission form. To increasing reports of medical error and reduce error rates need to raise awareness of health personnel.

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Medical malpractice , patient safety , drug administration malpractise

Journal Of Ege University Nursing Faculty

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