Errors and near-miss errors encountered by nursing students in clinical settings in governmental Universities, Khartoum State (2018)
Joint Authors
Ahmad, Sahar
Abd Allah, Samah
Toum, Muhammad
Muhammad, Montahaa
Source
Sudan Journal of Medical Sciences
Issue
Vol. 15, Issue 4 (31 Dec. 2020), pp.440-446, 7 p.
Publisher
Omdurman Islamic University Faculty of Medicine
Publication Date
2020-12-31
Country of Publication
Sudan
No. of Pages
7
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Background: Identifying and analyzing the occurrence and sort of student clinical errors which will allow for early detection of problems and offer chance for system evaluation and improvement.
This study intended to explain the types of errors along with near-miss errors encountered by nursing students in clinical settings.
Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted at five recognized governmental universities in Khartoum State and included 470 nursing students in their fourth year (2017–2018) who met the selection criteria of the study.
A full-converge sampling method was used and data were first collected by the researcher using published self-administered survey and then analyzed.
Results: Initially, the study included 519 nursing students but only 470 of them responded (at a rate of 90.5%).
The responses showed that while one-third of them, that is, 162(34.5%) students, had never encountered an error, 99(21.1%), 79 (16.8%), 71 (15.1%), 46(9.8%), and 13(2.8%) of them encountered errors with respect to needle stick, medical administration, omission of treatment, and wrong treatment, respectively.
Regarding the near-miss errors encountered by the respondents, almost half, that is, 202(43%) of them had never encountered a near-miss errors, while 112(23.8%), 106(22.6%), 18(3.8%),17(3.6%), and 15(3.2%) of them encountered near-miss errors with respect to medication administration, omission of treatment, wrong patient, providing wrong treatment and others such as improper bedrail used, did not follow sterile precautions respectively.
Conclusion: This study concluded that errors and near-miss errors exist and that awareness on clinical errors and near-misses need to be raised and strategies be developed for error management.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Ahmad, Sahar& Toum, Muhammad& Abd Allah, Samah& Muhammad, Montahaa. 2020. Errors and near-miss errors encountered by nursing students in clinical settings in governmental Universities, Khartoum State (2018). Sudan Journal of Medical Sciences،Vol. 15, no. 4, pp.440-446.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1441685
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Ahmad, Sahar…[et al.]. Errors and near-miss errors encountered by nursing students in clinical settings in governmental Universities, Khartoum State (2018). Sudan Journal of Medical Sciences Vol. 15, no. 4 (2020), pp.440-446.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1441685
American Medical Association (AMA)
Ahmad, Sahar& Toum, Muhammad& Abd Allah, Samah& Muhammad, Montahaa. Errors and near-miss errors encountered by nursing students in clinical settings in governmental Universities, Khartoum State (2018). Sudan Journal of Medical Sciences. 2020. Vol. 15, no. 4, pp.440-446.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1441685
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references : p. 446
Record ID
BIM-1441685