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Study of the Rate, Type and Factors Affecting Drug Errors from the Perspective of Nurses Working in Intensive Care and Emergency Unite of Educational Hospitals of Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences
Milad Rezaei Farsani, Mahboubeh Farokhpour,
Volume 4, Issue 2 (10-2017)
Abstract
Introduction: Considering the increasing number of drug errors, this study was conducted to investigate the factors affecting drug errors from nurses' point of view in ICU and Emergency Unite in educational hospitals of Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences in 2016.
Methods: The present study is a descriptive study on 221 nurses working in Shahrekord hospitals. The data gathering tool was a three-part questionnaire. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA and SPSS software version 18.
Results: There was a significant relationship between the two sex variables and the type of work-shift with the number of drug errors, so that the mean of medication errors in men was higher than that of women. There was also a significant difference between the numbers of drug errors in different work routines, so that the average of the medication errors was at night shift more than in the morning, but there was no difference between the morning shift and the work rotation. The most important factors affecting the occurrence of drug errors from the viewpoint of nurses was high workload, shortage of nurses in relation to the number of patients in the department and exhaustion due to extra work.
Conclusion: According to the results of this study, nursing managers need to pay more attention to the number of patients with staff in the sectors, reduce workload and decrease the working hours of nurses because the above mentioned factors can increase the likelihood of drug errors.
 Citation: Rezaei FM, Farokhpour M. The Rate, Type and Factors Affecting Drug Errors from the Perspective of Nurses Working in Intensive Care and Emergency Unite of Educational Hospitals of Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences. Journal of Development Strategies in Medical Education 2017; 4(2): 61-71.
Assessment of the Component Levels of Learning Organization in Educational Hospitals in Isfahan from Nurses' Viewpoints
Zahra Bagheri, Mrazieh Adelmehraban,
Volume 7, Issue 2 (10-2020)
Abstract
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Introduction: Academic hospitals need to follow the principles of the learning organization. The purpose of the present study is to determine the components of the learning organization from the viewpoint of nurses in academic hospitals.

Materials and Methods: This was a descriptive study.The participants, 190 nurses, were selected through random sampling from 10 educational hospitals in Isfahan city in 2017. The instrument for measuring this research was a two part questionnaire including the first part of demographic characteristics, and the second part was The Learning Organization Questionnaire, developed by Peter Senge and colleagues with 5 domains with 30 items. Data were analyzed by SPSS software using descriptive statistics and inferential statistics (multiple linear regression analysis of the Pearson correlation coefficient).

Results: The results revealed that the average score of learning organization from the nurses' point of view at academic hospitals was at a moderate level. Amongst the domains of learning organization of academic hospitals, Pattern and the Mental Model domain scored the highest mean (21.45) and Shared Vision domain (11.37) got the lowest mean score. Also, there was not a significant relationship between demographic characteristics except marital status and organizational learning score.

Conclusion: The academic hospitals in 2017 were at moderate level in terms of organizational learning, which can lead to some kind of imbalance and dissatisfaction for the staff in the changing circumstances of organizations.

Keywords: Learning Organization, Aacademic Hospitals, Nurses
 

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