Nursing and Midwifery: Nurses' Experiences and Perspectives on Medication Safety

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Qualitative Study Quantitative Study
Nurses’ experiences and
perspectives on medication
safety
practices: an explorative
qualitative study
Exploring the influence of
workplace supports and
relationships on safe
medication practice: A pilot study
of Australian graduate nurses
Aim and Significance
a. What was the
aim and
significance
of the study?
The aim of the study is to
evaluate the nurses’ experience
in perspective to preventing
medication administration error.
It has worked with nurses'
experience's insight to outline the
errors important to consider in
reducing medical emergency. It
also works on areas to work
while implementing safety
practices. It is intent to work
with experience-based
knowledge to determine
evidence in incorporating the
nursing code of conduct in
tailoring safety practices while
implementing an adequate level
of implementation. It is
important because the estimation
of medication error varies 5% -
25% by the medical
administrators; approximately
one-third of MEs cause harm to
the patient during the medication
preparation and administration
(Smeulers, Onderwater, van
Zwieten, & Vermeulen, 2014).
The aim of the study is to
investigate the relationship
between workplace support and
safe medication practices among
young graduate nurses. It has
been highlighted in the
background that the increasing
awareness regarding the benefit
of positive workplace climate,
and the impact of disruptive
workplace behaviour in
healthcare organisations. It has
taken the case of new graduate
nurses and their progress in
unsupportive climates that
increases the high risk of
medication errors. It has outlined
the standards of the Australian
Commission on Safety and
Quality in Health Care because
medication error is to be taken
seriously, hence increases the risk
of death cases in healthcare
facilities (Sahay, Hutchinson &
East, 2015).
Methods
a. Identify the
research
design used
in the study
and was it
appropriate
for the issue
discussed?
The qualitative design of the
research has explored this
complex topic; it has worked
with in-depth interviews and
iterative approach to work with
nurses experiences and their
underlying thoughts of the nurses
that have previously been
elucidated. The focus on the
research design is towards
single-centred study based on a
university hospital setting. The
It is quantitative research focused
on exploratory research design to
work with convenience sampling
in two Australian States (Sahay et
al., 2015). This approach is all
about using the information
regarding their qualities to work
with data that can be measured
with numeric. It is used because it
is highly structured and uses
structured techniques and designs
for example case studies, online

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selected research design has
helped the study to work with
first handed information. It
determines that the results are
consistent in comparison to other
studies taken previously
regarding this study. The
findings are transferable so that it
has implications over other
healthcare setting. The
qualitative research design was
the most appropriate design for
this study because it can work on
both small and large sample size.
Using this research design
increases the transparency of
research/participants which is
important for this type of
researches (Padgett, 2016).
survey and others. For this study
online survey has taken into
consideration from 58 nursing
graduates in two Australian States
(Sahay et al., 2015). Data has
been collected from giving
electronic database including
CINAHL, Medline, Cochrane
ProQuest, and Pub Med from
2004 – 2012. Though working on
this research was design and time
consuming because it works with
numerical values and statistics,
but working with this medium
size sample requires a flexible
discourse which is accommodated
with this research design only,
hence it is most suitable for this
research (McCusker & Gunaydin,
2015.
b. Discuss the
sampling
technique,
inclusion and
exclusion
criteria used
for the
selection of
sample in the
study
Purposive sampling has been
taken into consideration to work
on a high level of heterogeneity;
it has discussed factors such as
nursing managers, quality, safety
innovators, nursing ward
managers and others. There were
approached by emails to request
them to participate in the study.
The overall utilisation of
snowball sampling has been
using to collect the names of
other department nurses to
determine their difficulty in
training and development. A
qualitative semi-structured
interview was taken by 20 nurses
still completing their studies in
the academic medical centre
between March and December
2011. The interview processes
were designed to work with
informed consent and explaining
to the participants the use of the
research so is to follow the
ethical code of conduct in
medical practices (Smeulers et
al., 2014).
Online survey techniques have
been taken into consideration to
work with exploratory study and
quantitative survey, following a
convenient sampling technique.
Factors such as self-reported
medication error, safe medication
practices, and the nature of
workplace support and
relationship were undertaken. In
addition, responses were recruited
from the database of three
Australian Universities based on
1425 nursing graduates. It was
estimated that 30% of the
graduate retain their university
email account; survey link was
sent to them on their emails,
responses rates vary from 20% to
40% (Sahay et al., 2015).
c. Explore the
data
The data has been collected
using semi-structured individual
As stated above that three
Australian University school