An Exploration of Nurses' Attitudes and Beliefs on Reporting Medication Errors.

Background: Medication errors in health care are prevalent. Nurses play an important role in reporting; however errors remain underreported in incident reporting systems. Understanding the perspective of nurses will inform strategies to improve reporting and build systems to reduce errors.

Original Research: Exploring Medication Safety Practices from the Nurse's Perspective.

Background: Medication preparation and administration are complex tasks that nurses must perform daily within today's complicated health care environment. Despite more than two decades of efforts to reduce medication errors, it's well known that such errors remain prevalent. Obtaining insight from direct care nurses may clarify where opportunities for improvement exist and guide future efforts to do so.

Exploring Nurses' Attitudes, Skills, and Beliefs of Medication Safety Practices.

Background: Medication errors exist within health care systems despite efforts to reduce their incidence. These errors may result in patient harm including morbidity, mortality, and increased health care costs.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore direct care nurses' attitudes, skills, and beliefs about medication safety practice.