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- Title
Correlation between workplace culture, learning and medication errors.
- Authors
Abbasi, Fatemeh; Pazokian, Marzieh; Borhani, Fariba; Nasiri, Malihe
- Abstract
The occurrence of medication errors in intensive care units can bring about irreparable damage and even lead to death in hospitalized patients. In this respect, numerous investigations have suggested that many factors including workplace culture and learning from error can affect the incidence rates of such errors in these units. Accordingly, the present study was to shed light on the correlation between workplace culture, learning from error, and reporting rate of medication errors among nurses in intensive care units affiliated to teaching hospitals of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in Iran. Methods: A descriptive-analytical study was conducted among 120 nurses working in intensive care units in four teaching hospitals in the city of Tehran. Then, the questionnaires developed by Gulley et al., Rybowiak et al., and Wakefield et al. were used to collect the data related to workplace culture, learning climate, and medication errors. Results: The findings of this study indicated that increased learning from error in nurses working in intensive care units could lower reporting rate of medication errors (r=-0.312, p-value=0.001); there was also a significant relationship between workplace culture and reporting rate of medication errors, so that enhancing workplace culture could reduce reporting rate of medication errors (r=-0.239, p-value=0.012). Conclusion: Improving workplace culture via supporting employee creativity and innovation as well as promoting learning environment through an employee reward system along with avoidance of punishments and reprimands for nurses during the occurrence of errors could be effective in mitigating the incidence rates of medication errors.
- Subjects
IRAN; TEHRAN (Iran); WAKEFIELD (England); CORPORATE culture; MEDICATION errors; INTENSIVE care nursing; REWARD (Psychology); TEACHING hospitals
- Publication
Revista Latinoamericana de Hipertension, 2019, Vol 14, Issue 1, p102
- ISSN
1856-4550
- Publication type
Article