Nasogastric/Nasoenteric tube-related incidents in hospitalised patients: a study protocol of a multicentre prospective cohort study.

Introduction: Hospitalised patients with nasogastric/nasoenteric tube (NGT/NET) are at constant risk of incidents; therefore, healthcare professionals need to routinely monitor risks and adopt strategies for patient safety and quality of care.

Aim: This study aimed to evaluate the NGT/NET-related incidents in hospitalised patients and associated factors.

Methods: This is a multicentre study, with a prospective cohort design.

Medication wrong-route administrations in relation to medical prescriptions.

This study analyzes the influence of medical prescriptions' writing on the occurrence of medication errors in the medical wards of five Brazilian hospitals. This descriptive study used data obtained from a multicenter study conducted in 2005. The population was composed of 1,425 medication errors and the sample included 92 routes through which medication was wrongly administered.

Patient safety in drug therapy and the influence of the prescription in dose errors.

The aims of this study were to analyze the redaction of the prescription in dose errors that occurred in general medical units of five Brazilian hospitals and to identify the pharmacological classes involved in these errors. This was a descriptive study that used secondary data obtained from a multicenter study conducted in 2005. The population consisted of 1,425 medication errors and the sample of 215 dose errors.

[Root cause analysis: evaluation of medication errors at a university hospital].

The objectives of this study were to identify and analyze the types of medication errors observed in doses prepared and administered differently from those prescribed. It is a descriptive study using the root cause analysis method, in which a secondary analysis of data from a previously existing investigation was performed. In the study, 74 medication errors were identified during medication preparation and administration by the nursing staff.

[The integrated curriculum in nursing undergraduate training: between the traditional and the disruptive ethos].

The contemporary world reveals new needs to society, stimulating the universities to search ways to understand these demands and to train people to supply them. This article discusses Nursing undergraduate studies,focusing on an integrated curriculum as a novel instrument that allows the faculty and the students to analyze problems from the perspective of other areas of knowledge beyond those taken by the regular disciplines. The importance of an integrated curriculum is highlighted as a mechanism to socially share knowledge using flexible pedagogical tools that take into consideration new models of society, stressing the differences between the traditional and disruptive ethos.

[Medication systems in hospitals and their evaluation by professional groups].

This study was aimed at analyzing the medication systems in hospitals based on the opinions of 107 professionals. With regard to medical prescriptions in the institutions, 74.8 percent were handwritten and 50.