A study of the incidence of medication errors and the procedures violated or events that preceded the commission of medication errors of nursing students in a college of nursing in Iloilo from the school year 1976 to 1984

Abstract

This research investigated and analyzed the medication errors and the procedures violated or neglected or the incidents that preceded the commission of medication errors made by the nursing students under study while serving their internship at the base hospital.

More specifically, it sought to answer the following questions: 1. What are common medication errors committed by nursing students of a College of Nursing in Iloilo from 1977 to 1984 as revealed in the incident report? 2. What are the procedures violated or incidents that preceded the commission of these medication errors? 3. What procedures violated or incidents that preceded the commission of medication errors that tend to be cited in connection with each error ? 4. Do the four-year program and the five-year program students differ significantly in: a) the incidence of medication errors they committed? b) in the procedures violated or incidents that preceded the commission of medication error that they cited in connection with each error?