Perceived
Perceived
Safety Climate, Nurses’ Work Environment and Their Relations to Barriers to
Medication Administration Errors Reporting
Yaldez K. Zein ElDin and
Nevine H. Abd El Aal
1Nursing Administration Department, Damanhour
University. Egypt
Abstract: patient safety is
considered a major concern for healthcare consumers and providers in addition
to the work environment which isessential in ensuring patient safety climate
and in promoting excellence in clinical practice and in preventing medication
administration errors. Subjects: Nurses working in all units
(n= 176) at Damanhour National Medical Institute agreed to participate in the
study. Tools of the study: Three tools were used in the study
namely; Safety climate Scale, Work environment questionnaire and barriers to
medication administration errors reporting questionnaire. Results: Nurses
perceived their work environment the highest as its mean percent score was
(67%), followed by the barriers of medication administration errors reporting
which received the same percent score of the safety climate (66%) respectively. There are positive weak significant correlations
between education on quality (P= 0.001), Health care team attitude (P= 0.012),
worker safety (P= 0.030), the reporting system (P= 0.044) and barriers to MAE
reporting. On the other hand, only one negative significant correlation was
found between the blame system and barriers to MAE reporting. In relation to
work environment sub-items a positive weak correlation was found between peer
relations and barriers to MAE reporting where P= 0.005, counter to a weak
negative correlation between staffing resources and barriers to MAE reporting
where P= 0.000. Conclusion: There was no relationship
between perceived safety climate, nurses’ work environment and barriers to
medication administration errors reporting. Although the absence of
relationship between total of the study variables, there were some correlations between sub items of the
study variables and barriers to medication administration errors reporting. Recommendation:Nurses
are in need for training programs about the medication safety guidelines, Head
nurses are in need to be encouraged to learn more about the incident reports
and how to write a medication administration error reports.
[Yaldez K. Zein ElDin, and Nevine H. Abd El Aal. Perceived
safety climate, nurses’ work environment and their relations to barriers to medication
administration errors reporting. Life Sci J 2013;10(1):950-961].
(ISSN: 1097-8135). http://www.lifesciencesite.com.
Key words: Safety climate, Nurses’ work environment, Barriers to medication administration errors reporting, incident reports.
