Improving patient safety through identifying barriers to reporting medication administration errors among nurses: an integrative review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The aim of the third WHO challenge released in 2017 was to attain a global commitment to lessen the severity and to prevent medication-related harm by 50% within the next five years. To achieve this goal, comprehensive identification of barriers to reporting medication errors is imperative.

Objective

This review systematically identified and examined the barriers hindering nurses from reporting medication administration errors in the hospital setting.

Design

An integrative review.

Review methods

PubMed, Web of Science, EMBASE, and the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) including Google scholar were searched to identify published studies on barriers to medication administration error reporting from January 2016 to Decemb

SUBMITTER: Afaya A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8547021 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature