Impact of Psychosocial Factors on Occurrence of Medication Errors among Tehran Public Hospitals Nurses by Evaluating the Balance between Effort and Reward

BACKGROUND: Patient safety and accurate implementation of medication orders are among the essential requirements of par nursing profession. In this regard, it is necessary to determine and prevent factors influencing medications errors. Although many studies have investigated this issue, the effects of psychosocial factors have not been examined thoroughly. METHODS: The present study aimed at investigating the impact of psychosocial factors on nurses' medication errors by evaluating the balance between effort and reward. This cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in public hospitals of Tehran in 2015. The population of this work consisted of 379 nurses. A multisection questionnaire was used for data collection. RESULTS: In this research, 29% of participating nurses reported medication errors in 2015. Most frequent errors were related to wrong dosage, drug, and patient. There were significant relationships between medications errors and the stress of imbalance between effort and reward (p < 0.02) and job commitment and stress (p < 0.027). CONCLUSION: It seems that several factors play a role in the occurrence of medication errors, and psychosocial factors play a crucial and major role in this regard. Therefore, it is necessary to investigate these factors in more detail and take them into account in the hospital management.

[Ghestas-ol-Atebba Written by Noureddin Mohammad ibn Abdollah Shirazi, Persian physician in Indian court in Safavid Era]

Ghestas-ol-Atebba, written by Noureddin Mohammad ben Abdollah Shirazi, known as Noureddin Mohammad Shirazi, an Iranian physician, scholar and Persian author in the Indian subcontinent in the eleventh century A.H. He has some works such as Alfazol-Advieh, Tebbe-Darashekouhi, Ghestas-ol-Atebba and etc. His book, Ghestas-ol-Atebba, has a simple prose and belongs to the Saffavi period. This book includes medical terminologies, the name of physicians and medical words in Persian, Arabic, Greek and Hindi that has been written by Khanehzad Khan Ben Mahabat Khan, in India in [1040 LH]. This article is an attempt to introduce the book and author of Ghestas-ol-Atebba. The importance of the above-mentioned book is being introduced as well