Effect of Just Culture on Nurses’ Willingness to Report Medication Errors | ||||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||||
| Article 49, Volume 11, Issue 1, March 2020, Page 1223-1235 PDF (698.38 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2020.255687 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Heba E. El-Gazar1; Mohamed A. Zoromba2; Mona Shawer3; Ali D. Abousoliman4 | ||||
| 1Lecturer of Nursing Administration, Faculty of Nursing, Port Said University, Egypt | ||||
| 2Lecturer of Psychiatric Nursing and Mental Health, Faculty of Nursing, Mansoura University, Egypt | ||||
| 3Teacher in High Institution of Nursing, Mansoura, Egypt | ||||
| 4Lecturer of Nursing Administration, Faculty of Nursing, Kafrelsheikh University, Egypt | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Background: Medication error reporting is a critical healthcare issue globally. Although research has established that a just culture is beneficial for raising safety in health care settings, it’s less clear whether a hospital’s just culture can boost nurses’ willingness to report their own medication errors. Aim: This study aims to explore the effect of the hospital’s just culture on nurses’ willingness to report their own medication errors. Methods: A quantitative, cross-sectional, descriptive, and correlational study design was adopted. A sample of 378 clinical nurses employed in Port Said, Egypt, completed measures of the perceived just culture and willingness to report their own medication errors. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, point-biserial correlations, and logistic regression. Results: Nurses perceived their hospitals with a low level of just culture, and 55.8% of them were unwilling to report their medication errors. Logistic regression revealed that perceived hospital just culture among nurses increased significantly the odds of nurses’ willingness to report their medication errors by 10.7%. Conclusion: Hospitals adopting the just culture boost their nurses’ willingness to report their medication errors. Recommendations: Hospital managers at all levels should adopt just culture and implement all of its dimensions as a strategy to encourage nurses to report their medication errors. In addition, nursing scholars should take the responsibility to disseminate the just culture concept in hospitals through workshops, seminars, and educational studies to increase awareness of the just culture concept. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Clinical nurses; Error reporting; Just Culture | ||||
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