Perceptions of Patient Safety Culture and Medication Error Reporting among Early- and Mid-Career Female Nurses in South Korea

Jang, Sun-Joo; Lee, Haeyoung; Son, Youn-Jung

doi:10.3390/ijerph18094853

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Perceptions of Patient Safety Culture and Medication Error Reporting among Early- and Mid-Career Female Nurses in South Korea

Sun-Joo Jang

Haeyoung Lee

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Youn-Jung Son

Red Cross College of Nursing, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 06974, Korea

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Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18(9), 4853; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18094853

Received: 20 April 2021 / Revised: 24 April 2021 / Accepted: 29 April 2021 / Published: 1 May 2021

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Patient Safety Culture in Hospitals)

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Reporting medication errors is crucial for improving quality of care and patient safety in acute care settings. To date, little is known about how reporting varies between early and mid-career nurses. Thus, this study used a cross-sectional, secondary data analysis design to investigate the differences between early (under the age of 35) and mid-career (ages 35–54) female nurses by examining their perceptions of patient safety culture using the Korean Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSPSC) and single-item self-report measure of medication error reporting. A total of 311 hospital nurses (260 early-career and 51 mid-career nurses) completed questionnaires on perceived patient safety culture and medication error reporting. Early-career nurses had lower levels of perception regarding patient safety culture (p = 0.034) compared to mid-career nurses. A multiple logistic regression analysis showed that relatively short clinical experience (<3 years) and a higher level of perceived patient safety culture increased the rate of appropriate medication error reporting among early-career nurses. However, there was no significant association between perception of patient safety culture and medication error reporting among mid-career nurses. Future studies should investigate the role of positive perception of patient safety culture on reporting errors considering multidimensional aspects, and include hospital contextual factors among early-, mid-, and late-career nurses. View Full-Text

Keywords: nurses; patient safety culture; medication errors; expertise; nursing

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Jang, S.-J.; Lee, H.; Son, Y.-J. Perceptions of Patient Safety Culture and Medication Error Reporting among Early- and Mid-Career Female Nurses in South Korea. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18, 4853. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18094853

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Jang S-J, Lee H, Son Y-J. Perceptions of Patient Safety Culture and Medication Error Reporting among Early- and Mid-Career Female Nurses in South Korea. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021; 18(9):4853. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18094853

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Jang, Sun-Joo, Haeyoung Lee, and Youn-Jung Son. 2021. "Perceptions of Patient Safety Culture and Medication Error Reporting among Early- and Mid-Career Female Nurses in South Korea" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 9: 4853. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18094853

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