Exploration of nurses’ knowledge, attitudes, and perceived barriers towards medication error reporting in a tertiary health care facility: a qualitative approach

Medication error reporting (MER) is an effective way used to identify the causes of Medication Errors (MEs) and to prevent repeating them in future. The underreporting of MEs is a challenge generally in all MER systems. The current research aimed to explore nurses’ knowledge on MER by determining...

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Main Authors:	Dyab, Eman Ali, Mohamed Elkalmi, Ramadan, Bux, Siti Halimah, Jamshed, Shazia Qasim
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Language:	English
Published:	MDPI 2018
Subjects:	RS Pharmacy and materia medica
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spelling	iium-678492019-03-14T16:25:45Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/67849/ Exploration of nurses’ knowledge, attitudes, and perceived barriers towards medication error reporting in a tertiary health care facility: a qualitative approach Dyab, Eman Ali Mohamed Elkalmi, Ramadan Bux, Siti Halimah Jamshed, Shazia Qasim RS Pharmacy and materia medica Medication error reporting (MER) is an effective way used to identify the causes of Medication Errors (MEs) and to prevent repeating them in future. The underreporting of MEs is a challenge generally in all MER systems. The current research aimed to explore nurses’ knowledge on MER by determining their attitudes towards reporting and studying the implicated barriers and facilitators. A total of 23 nurses were interviewed using a semi-structured interview guide. The saturation point was attained after 21 interviews. All the interviews were tape-recorded and transcribed verbatim, and analysed using inductive thematic analysis. Four major themes and 17 sub-themes were identified. Almost all the interviewees were aware about the existence of the MER system. They showed a positive attitude towards MER. The main barriers for MER were the impacts of time and workload, fear of investigation, impacts on the job, and negative reactions from the person in charge. The nurses were knowledgeable about MER but there was uncertainty towards reporting harmless MEs, thus indicating the need for an educational program to highlight the benefits of near-miss reporting. To improve participation strategies, a blameless reporting culture, reporting anonymously, and a simplified MER process should be considered. MDPI 2018-12 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/67849/1/Exploration%20of%20Nurses%E2%80%99%20Knowledge%2C%20Attitudes%2C%20and%20Perceived%20Barriers%20towards%20Medication%20Error%20Reporting%20in%20a%20Tertiary%20Health%20Care%20Facility_A%20Qualitative%20Approach.pdf Dyab, Eman Ali and Mohamed Elkalmi, Ramadan and Bux, Siti Halimah and Jamshed, Shazia Qasim (2018) Exploration of nurses’ knowledge, attitudes, and perceived barriers towards medication error reporting in a tertiary health care facility: a qualitative approach. Pharmacy, 6 (4). pp. 1-14. ISSN 2226-4787 https://www.mdpi.com/2226-4787/6/4/120 10.3390/pharmacy6040120
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spellingShingle	RS Pharmacy and materia medica Dyab, Eman Ali Mohamed Elkalmi, Ramadan Bux, Siti Halimah Jamshed, Shazia Qasim Exploration of nurses’ knowledge, attitudes, and perceived barriers towards medication error reporting in a tertiary health care facility: a qualitative approach
description	Medication error reporting (MER) is an effective way used to identify the causes of Medication Errors (MEs) and to prevent repeating them in future. The underreporting of MEs is a challenge generally in all MER systems. The current research aimed to explore nurses’ knowledge on MER by determining their attitudes towards reporting and studying the implicated barriers and facilitators. A total of 23 nurses were interviewed using a semi-structured interview guide. The saturation point was attained after 21 interviews. All the interviews were tape-recorded and transcribed verbatim, and analysed using inductive thematic analysis. Four major themes and 17 sub-themes were identified. Almost all the interviewees were aware about the existence of the MER system. They showed a positive attitude towards MER. The main barriers for MER were the impacts of time and workload, fear of investigation, impacts on the job, and negative reactions from the person in charge. The nurses were knowledgeable about MER but there was uncertainty towards reporting harmless MEs, thus indicating the need for an educational program to highlight the benefits of near-miss reporting. To improve participation strategies, a blameless reporting culture, reporting anonymously, and a simplified MER process should be considered.
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author	Dyab, Eman Ali Mohamed Elkalmi, Ramadan Bux, Siti Halimah Jamshed, Shazia Qasim
author_facet	Dyab, Eman Ali Mohamed Elkalmi, Ramadan Bux, Siti Halimah Jamshed, Shazia Qasim
author_sort	Dyab, Eman Ali
title	Exploration of nurses’ knowledge, attitudes, and perceived barriers towards medication error reporting in a tertiary health care facility: a qualitative approach
title_short	Exploration of nurses’ knowledge, attitudes, and perceived barriers towards medication error reporting in a tertiary health care facility: a qualitative approach
title_full	Exploration of nurses’ knowledge, attitudes, and perceived barriers towards medication error reporting in a tertiary health care facility: a qualitative approach
title_fullStr	Exploration of nurses’ knowledge, attitudes, and perceived barriers towards medication error reporting in a tertiary health care facility: a qualitative approach
title_full_unstemmed	Exploration of nurses’ knowledge, attitudes, and perceived barriers towards medication error reporting in a tertiary health care facility: a qualitative approach
title_sort	exploration of nurses’ knowledge, attitudes, and perceived barriers towards medication error reporting in a tertiary health care facility: a qualitative approach
publisher	MDPI
publishDate	2018
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Exploration of nurses’ knowledge, attitudes, and perceived barriers towards medication error reporting in a tertiary health care facility: a qualitative approach

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