Strategic reduction of medication errors in Emergency Department At Mabarah Hospital in Port Said city

Ibrahim Soliman, Hala Abdo; Mohamed Elsayed Ahmed Elzaghawy, Hader Mahmoud; Mohamed Mokhtar Mohamed Ibrahim Hetemi, Basma Gamal; Mohamed Abdel Fattah, Gehad Reda; Ewies Ahmed, Asmaa Mohamed; Al-Tamimi Fahmy Gharbih, Norhan Yasser; Mohamed Jamal Eltawel, Norhan Tarek

doi:10.21608/muj.2022.115977.1087

Strategic reduction of medication errors in Emergency Department At Mabarah Hospital in Port Said city

Document Type : Research project

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¹ faculty of nursing in port said

² Faculty of Nursing at Port Said University Complete the study of master degree in nursing administration in faculty of Nursing at Port Said University Attain ministry training for infection control Attain ICDL course Attain the toeful course

³ Faculty of pharmacy -Egyptian Russian university

⁴ A graduate of a health institute And complete the Faculty of Nursing Ain Shams University

⁵ Faculty of Nursing at Port Said University

⁶ Faculty of Nursing Ain Shams University

⁷ Bachelor of Technology

10.21608/muj.2022.115977.1087

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Background: Medication errors occur at any point of the medication management process involving prescribing, transcribing, dispensing, administering and monitoring, have been reported to account for approximately one-quarter of all healthcare errors.. So, the aim of this study is to identify the strategic reduction of medication errors in emergency department at El-mabarha hospital port said city .
Subjects and Methods: A descriptive research design was utilized. The subjects number 110 health care staff doctors ,nurses & technical. Data was collected by using checklist tool .
Results: Medications are safely and accurately dispensed according to laws and regulations” was the highest dimension that done (44.5 %). While the lowest dimension was “Medications are prepared safely” (17.3 %). Finally according to the total percentages 62.7 inspect Medication error with moderate degree.
Conclusion: it was concluded that there is a statistical difference between all healthcare providers in most of dimensions as Effective planning and management of medication, Antimicrobial Stewardship Program, Efficient medication selection and procurement, Emergency Medications, Safe medication preparation and dispensing, Safe medication administration, Effective medication monitoring, Medication errors- near misses and medication therapy problems & total; (p=0.002, p=0.029, p=0.001, p=0.004, p=0.021, p=0.001, p=0.001, p=0.001 & p=0.001 respectively).

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