Abstract

Background&aim: Medical errors are a significant portion of errors by nurses in providing care services to occur. The medication errors have a special place. Identify factors involved in this case and the reasons for people avoiding the report errors is of great importance Method: This was a Cross-sectional study on 275 nurses and nursing students in Abadan School of Medical Sciences who were selected by convenience sampling. Collecting data from participants, based on a three-part questionnaire including demographic data, causes of errors and factors affecting the reporting of medication errors And analyze the data using software spss-17 and descriptive statistics and statistical tests including Student t-test, Anova and chi(2) was done. Result: The results showed a significant relationship between age, employment status, education level and errors (p 0 / 05). The most important cause of medication errors related to management factors (average 65/28) and about the reporting errors, fear the consequences of reporting (average 83/37) Conclusion: Given that human errors are unavoidable But with proper planning And a comprehensive system of monitoring and supervising on the process Reduce errors and prevent dangerous side effects caused by it when it was happening