Observation of medication administration errors done by nurses working in pediatri clinics

This thesis is designed by using observational data as a descriptive study to determine parenteral, oral and inhaler medication administration error rates of nurses working in pediatric clinics of a public hospital in Istanbul. Research sample consist of 653 pediatric medication administrations conducted during April-December 2018 by 43 nurses working in this hospital. To collect data, "observation forms" are developed according to medication administration principles and "data collection form" is used. In addition to descriptive statistics, Mann Whitney U Test to compare two groups and Kruskall Wallis Test to compare more than two groups, are used to analyze data. In addition, Bonferroni Mann Whitney U Test is used to determine which group is causing the difference. According to the results, medication error rate for paraenteral medicines is 0,53, while the same rate is 0,67 for inhaler medicines and 0,57 for oral medicines. In addition, results illustrate that inhaler medication error rate is significantly higher than other medicine types (p<0,05). The results show that error rate is significantly different according to the age, education, nursing experience, pediatric experience, unit, willingness to work in pediatric services, average number of monthly night shifts and nurse-to-patient ratio (p<0,05). Based on the results of this research, we suggest conducting more observational research in order to determine causes of medication errors, and developing efficient standard training models.