Barriers to Medication Error Reporting among Hospital Nurses

ConclusionsHospitals need to determine the presence of perceived barriers among nurses using questionnaires like the MERB and work to encourage better reporting.
Relevance to clinical practiceBarriers to MER make it less likely that nurses will report medication errors, especially errors where patient harm is not apparent or where an error might be hidden. Such under‐reporting impedes collection of accurate ME data and prevents hospitals from changing harmful practices.This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

Source: Journal of Clinical Nursing - March 1, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: Dana N. Rutledge, Tina Retrosi, Gary Ostrowski Tags: Original Article Source Type: research