Evaluation of relationship between drugs’ safety competence and Medication Administration Error Perceptions in clinical nurses’ that are working in the educational hospitals in city of Ardabil from October 2023 to October 2024

Affiliations: Students Research Committee, School of Nurses and Midwafery, Ardabil University of Medical Sciences, Ardabil, IranIntroduction: First and the most important aim of a medical facility, as in the Nightingale pledge, is to not harm patients and protecttheir safety in first place. One of the major threats for patient’s safety is drug-related errors. For this reason, the present study aims todetermination of relationship between drugs’ safety competence and Medication Administration Error Perceptions in clinical nurses’that are working in the educational hospitals in city of Ardabil from October 2023 to October 2024Methods and Materials: The descriptive correlational study, 300 nurses that are working in educational hospitals of Ardabil, IRANhas been chosen with proportional stratified sampling method. The data were collected using the GA Semoun and JK Park(2021)drugs’ safety competence Questionnaire and Wakefield et all (2005) Medication Administration Error PerceptionsQuestionnaire”.The collected data were analyzed in SPSS software (26) using descriptive statistics, independent t-test, analysis ofvariance, Pearson correlation coefficients, and linear regression logistic model.Results: The results revealed that the drugs safety competences in Nurses (77%) and Medication Administration Error Perceptionsnurses (66.6%) was at a moderate level . The mean nurses’ drug safety competence and Medication Administration Error Perceptionswere reported (135/48 ±15/41) and (316/12 ±32/13) and this difference was statistically significant (P<0.001). There was a positiveand significant correlation between drugs safety competences and Medication Administration Error Perceptions (P=0.03). Thestepwise multiple linear regression model showed that ' patient-centered medication management ' was a stronger predictor than othervariables in Peredict of the Medication Administration Error Perceptions between clinical nurses.Conclusion and discussion: All the nurses in the present study had required level of drug safety competence and drug-related errorscomprehension. Also there was a positive and meaningful relationship between drug safety competence ,and its subcategories, anddrug-related errors comprehension of nurses. For these reasons we suggest to managers and supervisors of medical-educationalfacilities to make endeavors in education of nurses and making a safer workplace for them so that the risks and dangers for the patientcan be reduced to the minimum level.

Evaluation of relationship between drugs’ safety competence and Medication Administration Error Perceptions in clinical nurses’ that are working in the educational hospitals in city of Ardabil from October 2023 to October 2024 Keywords:

drug safety competence , Medication Administration Error Perceptions , clinical nurses.