ArticlePakistan journal of medical sciences
Association of medication administration errors with interruption among nurses in public sector tertiary care hospitals.
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- Associations Between Interruptions and Medication Administration Errors Among Nurses in Hospital Settings: A Scoping Review of Quantitative Studies.Journal of advanced nursing · 2026Article
- Factors associated with not reporting medication administration errors among critical care nurses in Kelantan, Malaysia: a cross-sectional study.BMC nursing · 2025Article
- Errors Associated With Medication Administration by a Nurse During Hospitalisation: A Prospective Observational Multicentric Study.Nursing open · 2025Observational
- Successful implementation of safe practice for adult intravenous push medication in a tertiary care hospital: determination of stability of four intravenous antibiotics in syringes.BMJ open quality · 2024Article
- Clinical and economic impact of medication administration errors among neonates in neonatal intensive care units.PloS one · 2024Observational
- Nurses' knowledge and understanding of obstacles encountered them when administering resuscitation medications: a cross-sectional study from Palestine.BMC nursing · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo determine the association of medication administration errors with interruption among nurses working at public sector tertiary care hospitals in Karachi, Pakistan.
methodsAn analytical cross-sectional study was accomplished at two public sector healthcare facilities Civil Hospital, and Dow University Hospital, Karachi. The study was carried out from October 2017 to July 2018 over a period of 10 months. The sample was calculated by using OpenEpi version 3.0. By taking 56.4% of medication administration errors, 5% margin of error and 95% confidence level. The calculated sample size was 204 of both genders. The subjects both male and female nurses having a valid license from Pakistan Nursing Council and one year of clinical experience were enrolled in the study. The subjects were approached by using non-probability purposive sampling method. Validated and adapted questionnaire utilized to gather the data. Data was entered and analyzed by using SPSS version 21.0.
resultsIn this study, total 204 nurses were included, almost half (52%) of them were male. Majority of (82.3%) study participants had age between 25-35 years old. There were total 716 medications given by 204 nurses. Out of these, 295 (41.2%) were antibiotics, other common medications were acid-suppressive, analgesic and antiemetic 14.5%, 15.9% and 11.2% respectively. Among all 716 medications, 644 (89.9%) were given intravenously whereas only 6.7% drugs given orally. A significant association has been found between medication administration errors and interruption like talking with other health care personnel, patients or attendant queries, phone calls (p-value=<0.001). Nearly 91% of the study nurses who were interrupted during medication committed medication errors.
conclusionIt is concluded that there is a significant association between medication administration errors with interruption among nurses.
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