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Why are chemotherapy administration errors not reported? Perceptions of oncology nurses in a Nigerian tertiary health institution

OBJECTIVE: The administration of chemotherapy forms a major part of the clinical role of oncology nurses. When a mistake is made during chemotherapy administration, admitting and reporting the error timely could save the lives of cancer patients. The main objective of this study was to assess the pe...

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Autor principal: Nwozichi, Chinomso Ugochukwu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5123459/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27981089
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2347-5625.152403
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description OBJECTIVE: The administration of chemotherapy forms a major part of the clinical role of oncology nurses. When a mistake is made during chemotherapy administration, admitting and reporting the error timely could save the lives of cancer patients. The main objective of this study was to assess the perceptions of oncology nurses about why chemotherapy administration errors are not reported. METHODS: This is a descriptive study that surveyed a convenient sample of 128 oncology nurses currently practicing in the Ogun State University Teaching Hospital, Nigeria. The tool for data collection was a structured questionnaire that consisted of two sections. The first section was for the demographic data of participants and the second section consisted of questions constructed based on the Medication Administration Error (MAE) reporting survey developed by Wakefield and his team. RESULTS: Findings showed that majority of the nurses (89.8%) have made at least one MAE in the course of their professional practice. Fear (mean = 3.63) and managerial response (mean = 2.87) were the two major barriers to MAE reporting perceived among oncology nurses. CONCLUSION: Critically analyzing why medication errors are not reported among oncology nurses is crucial to identifying strategic interventions that would promote reporting of all errors, especially those related to chemotherapy administration. It is therefore recommended that nurse managers and health care administrators should create a favorable atmosphere that does not only prevent medication errors but also supports nurses’ voluntary reporting of MAEs. Education, information and communication strategies should also be put in place to train nurses on the need to report, if possible prevent, all medication errors.
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spelling pubmed-51234592016-12-15 Why are chemotherapy administration errors not reported? Perceptions of oncology nurses in a Nigerian tertiary health institution Nwozichi, Chinomso Ugochukwu Asia Pac J Oncol Nurs Original Article OBJECTIVE: The administration of chemotherapy forms a major part of the clinical role of oncology nurses. When a mistake is made during chemotherapy administration, admitting and reporting the error timely could save the lives of cancer patients. The main objective of this study was to assess the perceptions of oncology nurses about why chemotherapy administration errors are not reported. METHODS: This is a descriptive study that surveyed a convenient sample of 128 oncology nurses currently practicing in the Ogun State University Teaching Hospital, Nigeria. The tool for data collection was a structured questionnaire that consisted of two sections. The first section was for the demographic data of participants and the second section consisted of questions constructed based on the Medication Administration Error (MAE) reporting survey developed by Wakefield and his team. RESULTS: Findings showed that majority of the nurses (89.8%) have made at least one MAE in the course of their professional practice. Fear (mean = 3.63) and managerial response (mean = 2.87) were the two major barriers to MAE reporting perceived among oncology nurses. CONCLUSION: Critically analyzing why medication errors are not reported among oncology nurses is crucial to identifying strategic interventions that would promote reporting of all errors, especially those related to chemotherapy administration. It is therefore recommended that nurse managers and health care administrators should create a favorable atmosphere that does not only prevent medication errors but also supports nurses’ voluntary reporting of MAEs. Education, information and communication strategies should also be put in place to train nurses on the need to report, if possible prevent, all medication errors. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC5123459/ /pubmed/27981089 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2347-5625.152403 Text en Copyright: © 2016 Ann & Joshua Medical Publishing Co. Ltd http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title_fullStr Why are chemotherapy administration errors not reported? Perceptions of oncology nurses in a Nigerian tertiary health institution
title_full_unstemmed Why are chemotherapy administration errors not reported? Perceptions of oncology nurses in a Nigerian tertiary health institution
title_short Why are chemotherapy administration errors not reported? Perceptions of oncology nurses in a Nigerian tertiary health institution
title_sort why are chemotherapy administration errors not reported? perceptions of oncology nurses in a nigerian tertiary health institution
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5123459/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27981089
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2347-5625.152403
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