Interventions to Minimize Medication Error by Nurses in Intensive Care: A Scoping Review Protocol

Medication errors represent a concern for healthcare organizations due to their negative consequences. In the nursing context, these errors represent a threat to the quality of care and patient safety. Many factors have been identified as potential causes for these errors in intensive care units. A...

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Published in:Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) Italy), 2023-08, Vol.13 (3), p.1040-1050
Main Authors: Coelho, Fábio, Furtado, Luís, Mendonça, Natália, Soares, Hélia, Duarte, Hugo, Costeira, Cristina, Santos, Cátia, Sousa, Joana Pereira
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analysis
Care and treatment
Drug administration
Evidence-based medicine
Information management
Intensive care
intensive care units
interventions
Medical care
Medical errors
Medication errors
medications errors
Nurses
Patient safety
Patients
Pharmacists
Protocol
Quality management
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Summary:Medication errors represent a concern for healthcare organizations due to their negative consequences. In the nursing context, these errors represent a threat to the quality of care and patient safety. Many factors have been identified as potential causes for these errors in intensive care units. A scoping review will be developed to identify interventions/strategies to minimize the occurrence of medication errors by nurses, considering the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) methodology. A search will be conducted in the EbscoHost (CINAHL Complete and MEDLINE), Embase and PubMed databases. Data analysis, extraction and synthesis will be carried out by two reviewers independently. This review will attempt to map which interventions are more specific to minimizing medication error by nurses in intensive care and to recognize which factors influence this type of error to mitigate practices that may lead to error. This protocol acts as the framework for a scoping review in the strategy to map the interventions and which factors contribute to the medication error by intensive care nurses. This study was prospectively registered with the Open Science Framework on 21 April 2023 with registration number DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/94KH3.
ISSN:2039-4403
2039-439X
2039-4403
DOI:10.3390/nursrep13030091