Flow of Medication Information Incidents in the Home Care Setting in Finland: A Qualitative Descriptive Study.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

To describe the challenges related to the flow of medication information in home care, their contributing factors, and home care registered nurses' and nurse leaders' views on preventing them.

Design

A descriptive qualitative study.

Methods

Six group and one individual semi-structured interview were conducted remotely with 15 home care registered nurses and nurse leaders between 12 February 2023 and 9 November 2023 in Finland. The data were analysed using reflexive thematic analysis.

Results

We identified four main themes related to the challenges of medication information flow: the complexity of home care work in cooperation and the medication process, technology-related challenges, the healthcare professionals' individual factors and client-related challe

SUBMITTER: Vellonen M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12907608 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature