Main causes of medication administration errors among final year student nurses in University College of Islam Melaka (KUIM)

Medication errors can occur at any stage of medication administration includes: ordering, transcribing, dispensing, administering and also monitoring. The most common factors are physician communication, knowledge, attitude, and rights violations. However, some circumstances may increase the chan...

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Main Authors:	Mohd Noh, Hairanni, Seng, Soong Chong, Mohamed Ludin, Salizar, Mohamed Ariffin, Suzilawati
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Language:	English
Published:	Scholars Academic and Scientific Publisher 2018
Subjects:	RT Nursing
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spelling	iium-661872018-10-01T08:47:31Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/66187/ Main causes of medication administration errors among final year student nurses in University College of Islam Melaka (KUIM) Mohd Noh, Hairanni Seng, Soong Chong Mohamed Ludin, Salizar Mohamed Ariffin, Suzilawati RT Nursing Medication errors can occur at any stage of medication administration includes: ordering, transcribing, dispensing, administering and also monitoring. The most common factors are physician communication, knowledge, attitude, and rights violations. However, some circumstances may increase the chance of their involvement in medication errors, especially for an undergraduate nursing student. The purpose of the study is to investigate and to find out the main causes leading to medication administration errors among final year nursing students in University College of Islam Melaka (KUIM).A cross-sectional study and convenience sampling method were used to select the sample. Ninety-eight respondents involved in the study and the data was collected using a self-administrative questionnaire. The researcher comes out with result that the most popular causes that contribute to medication administration error were right violations (mean: 35.53, SD: 6.26) followed by knowledge (mean: 32.03, SD: 6.42), attitude of the students (mean: 22.62, SD: 2.97) and physician communication (mean: 20.88, SD: 5.41). Administration of medication is the most important part of patient safety, and medication errors should be reported and avoided. This is very important for third-semester nursing students to take full consideration and best practice to avoid medication errors before their graduates and become a registered nurse. Scholars Academic and Scientific Publisher 2018-08-30 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/66187/1/SJAMS-68-2997-3002-c.pdf Mohd Noh, Hairanni and Seng, Soong Chong and Mohamed Ludin, Salizar and Mohamed Ariffin, Suzilawati (2018) Main causes of medication administration errors among final year student nurses in University College of Islam Melaka (KUIM). Scholars Journal of Applied Medical Sciences (SJAMS), 6 (8). pp. 2997-3002. ISSN 2347-954X E-ISSN 2320-6691 http://www.saspublisher.com/ 10.21276/sjams.2018.6.8.10
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description	Medication errors can occur at any stage of medication administration includes: ordering, transcribing, dispensing, administering and also monitoring. The most common factors are physician communication, knowledge, attitude, and rights violations. However, some circumstances may increase the chance of their involvement in medication errors, especially for an undergraduate nursing student. The purpose of the study is to investigate and to find out the main causes leading to medication administration errors among final year nursing students in University College of Islam Melaka (KUIM).A cross-sectional study and convenience sampling method were used to select the sample. Ninety-eight respondents involved in the study and the data was collected using a self-administrative questionnaire. The researcher comes out with result that the most popular causes that contribute to medication administration error were right violations (mean: 35.53, SD: 6.26) followed by knowledge (mean: 32.03, SD: 6.42), attitude of the students (mean: 22.62, SD: 2.97) and physician communication (mean: 20.88, SD: 5.41). Administration of medication is the most important part of patient safety, and medication errors should be reported and avoided. This is very important for third-semester nursing students to take full consideration and best practice to avoid medication errors before their graduates and become a registered nurse.
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author	Mohd Noh, Hairanni Seng, Soong Chong Mohamed Ludin, Salizar Mohamed Ariffin, Suzilawati
author_facet	Mohd Noh, Hairanni Seng, Soong Chong Mohamed Ludin, Salizar Mohamed Ariffin, Suzilawati
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title	Main causes of medication administration errors among final year student nurses in University College of Islam Melaka (KUIM)
title_short	Main causes of medication administration errors among final year student nurses in University College of Islam Melaka (KUIM)
title_full	Main causes of medication administration errors among final year student nurses in University College of Islam Melaka (KUIM)
title_fullStr	Main causes of medication administration errors among final year student nurses in University College of Islam Melaka (KUIM)
title_full_unstemmed	Main causes of medication administration errors among final year student nurses in University College of Islam Melaka (KUIM)
title_sort	main causes of medication administration errors among final year student nurses in university college of islam melaka (kuim)
publisher	Scholars Academic and Scientific Publisher
publishDate	2018
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Main causes of medication administration errors among final year student nurses in University College of Islam Melaka (KUIM)

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