Intravenous medicine preparation technique training programme for nurses in clinical areas.

Objective: The key objective of this study was to highlight the weak points in the medicine use process.

Method: We collected 15 videos from eight neonatal intensive care units where staff nurses showed how medicine preparation was performed. Recorded medicines were: vancomycin (6), gentamicin (5), caffeine citrate (2) and phenobarbital (2).

Strategies implementation to reduce medicine preparation error rate in neonatal intensive care units.

Unlabelled: This study assessed the rate of errors in intravenous medicine preparation at bedside in neonatal intensive care units versus preparation error rate in a hospital pharmacy service before and after several strategies were implemented. We performed a prospective observational study during 2013-2015. Ten Spanish neonatal intensive care units and one hospital pharmacy service participated in the study.

Medicine preparation errors in ten Spanish neonatal intensive care units.

Unlabelled: This study assessed the rate of errors in intravenous medicine preparation at the bedside in neonatal intensive care units vs the preparation error rate in a hospital pharmacy service. We conducted a prospective observational study between June and September 2013. Ten Spanish neonatal intensive care units and one hospital pharmacy service participated in the study.

Educational strategy to reduce medication errors in a neonatal intensive care unit.

Objective: We aimed to evaluate the effect of a comprehensive preventive educational strategy on the number and type of drug errors in the prescription process in a regional neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).

Design: Medication errors during prescription were recorded in a 41 bed, level III regional neonatal unit by a pharmacist. Data were retrieved from handwritten doctor's orders and introduced at bedsite into an e-database.

Medication errors in a neonatal intensive care unit. Influence of observation on the error rate.

Aim: To study if medication error rate decreased as a consequence of a simple observation process of registering its occurrence.

Methods: Prescription and transcription processes were prospectively registered along two different period of time in a level III regional Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: a pilot phase, aimed to know the baseline drug error rate and a phase I, a pre-intervention phase, both part of a study designed to determinate the effect of a preventive strategy in drug error rate. Random drug prescriptions by physicians and their transcriptions by nurses were reviewed and registered by a hospital pharmacist.