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Medication Errors and Their Correlation with Nurse’s Satisfaction. The Case of the Hospitals of Lasithi, Crete

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Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology ((AEMB,volume 1337))

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Abstract

Background: Medication errors have been recognized as a real problem for all health systems worldwide and are the most common category of nursing errors. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of medication errors and their correlation with the job satisfaction of nurses.

Method: A prospective cross-sectional study was carried out and the sample of the study consisted of 189 nurses. To investigate medication errors, an anonymous structured questionnaire of 34 questions was used and Job Satisfaction Survey (JSS) questionnaire was used to measure job satisfaction. The IBM SPSS 25.0 program was used for statistical analysis of the data.

Results: 63.0% of nurses have been errors in the administration of medication, more often by the wrong time of administration (34.4%), missed dose (22.8%), and wrong dose (21.7%). The likelihood of an error is similar in all shifts, its devaluation is a non-reference reason, and if reported to a greater frequency in the attending physician. A significant difference in the frequency of errors was found only in the marital status and the job, while under the working conditions no significant variation was recorded. Job satisfaction is statistically significantly low for financial earnings and high for the management supervision. Based on the findings, the correlation between total job satisfaction and medication errors was not significant.

Conclusions: Nursing medication errors continue to happen. Continuing education, formal recording, and improvement of working conditions could help prevent and minimize errors and at the same time increase the job satisfaction of nurses.

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  1. General Hospital of Nikaia “Agios Panteleimon.”, Nikaia, Greece

    George Intas & Eleftheria Chalari

  2. General Hospital of Lasithi. Lasithi, Crete, Greece

    Despoina Pagkalou

  3. National School of Public Administration and Local Government, Athens, Greece

    Charalampos Platis

  4. Collaborating Scientific Personnel, Hellenic Open University, Stadiou, Veria, Greece

    Antonios Ganas

  5. Oncology Hospital “Agioi Anargiroi”, Timiou Stavrou, Kifisia, Greece

    Pantelis Stergiannis

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Intas, G., Pagkalou, D., Platis, C., Chalari, E., Ganas, A., Stergiannis, P. (2021). Medication Errors and Their Correlation with Nurse’s Satisfaction. The Case of the Hospitals of Lasithi, Crete. In: Vlamos, P. (eds) GeNeDis 2020. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 1337. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78771-4_22

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