Impact of nurse's worked hours on medication administration near-miss error alerts Article

Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/07420528.2020.1811295 Web of Science: 000562633700001

Cited authors

  • Westley JA, Peterson J, Fort D, Burton J, List R

Abstract

  • Long working hours have been shown to negatively impact adverse events in health care. In this study, a retrospective correlational design was used to evaluate the relationship between working hours and near-miss medication error alerts. During a two-year period, 5372 nurses triggered 420,706 near-miss alerts on 9, 285, 786 medication administrations. Nurses who worked 60 h or more in a week yielded an average near-miss rate of 4.0% compared to 3.0% (p<.001) for nurses who did not. Nurses working extended hours had a significantly increased risk of triggering a near-miss alert compared to those not working extended hours.

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Publication date

  • 2020

Published in

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0742-0528

Number of pages

  • 4

Start page

  • 1373

End page

  • 1376

Volume

  • 37

Issue

  • 9-10