Factors associated with reporting of medication errors by Israeli nurses.
This study investigated medication error reporting among Israeli nurses, the relationship between nurses' personal views about error reporting, and the impact of the safety culture of the ward and hospital on this reporting. Nurses (n = 201) completed a questionnaire related to different aspects of error reporting (frequency, organizational norms of dealing with errors, and personal views on reporting). The higher the error frequency, the more errors went unreported. If the ward nurse manager corrected errors on the ward, error self-reporting decreased significantly. Ward nurse managers have to provide good role models.
Kagan
Ilya
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Nursing Department, Steyer School of Health Professions, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. kaganily@post.tau.ac.il
Barnoy
Sivia
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D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D004647:Employee Discipline; D006272:Health Facility Environment; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007557:Israel; D007857:Leadership; D008508:Medication Errors / Q000451:nursing* / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D009718:Nurse Administrators / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000523:psychology; D024802:Nurse's Role / Q000523:psychology; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000523:psychology*; D015279:Organizational Culture; D011361:Professional Competence; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D017751:Safety Management / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012752:Shame; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D017749:Total Quality Management; D014342:Truth Disclosure