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Havva Ozturk1, Ilknur Kahriman2, Ayse Nefise Bahcecik3
1Karadeniz Technical University, Turkey .
Objective:
The study was conducted to identify whether or not student nurses made the medical errors as well as the reasons for the errors.
Methods:
A study was conducted with 1067 student nurses studying at 12 universities in Turkey. The data were collected by using medical error scale and a questionnaire on demographic characteristics and malpractices.
Results:
Overall 28% of the student nurses performed malpractice during clinical practice. Medical errors included failure of complying with sterility and asepsis rules (32%), wrong identification of patient identity (19%), and administrating wrong dosage of medications (12%). They obtained a mean score of 4.19±0.62 from the overall scale and the lowest score was 3.9±0.78 for drug administrations.
Conclusions:
Nursing students perform considerable amount of malpractice and they should especially improve concerning administration of drugs.
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