Nursing students' perspectives of the cause of medication errors

摘要: Summary Background Medication errors complicate up to half of inpatient stays and some have very serious consequences. To our knowledge, this is the first qualitative study Iranian nursing students' perspectives medication errors. Objectives describe causes Design Four focus groups were held with 24 students from 4 different academic semesters in school Tehran, between November 2011 2012. Using a descriptive design, themes subthemes identified by content analysis. Results Two main emerged data: “under-developed caring skills management” “unfinished learning safe management”, which was subdivided into “drifting being worried careful”, “contextualising pharmacology education”. All respondents felt that their education programmes leaving them vulnerable “drug errors” cited incidents where patient safety had been jeopardised. Conclusion Nursing curricula need increase investment medicines management. If are become competent, skilful practitioners, will require extensive support institutions clinical mentors.