The heavy workloads predispose nurses to making common medication errors consequently becoming difficult to ensure medication safety for patients who are in the provision of care of nurses. Stratton, Blegen, Pepper and Vaughn (2004) have found in a case study that nurses reported staffing ratios and the amount of drugs being administered as being one of the main reasons why common medication errors occur. Another survey reported by Tang, Sheu, Yu, Wei and Chen (2007) have found that nurses from Taiwan also reported that a significant contributing factor to drug errors was due to strenuous workload. This depicts that, the heavy workload in a health care setting for nurses affects nurses to make common medication errors increasingly. Eslamian, Taheri, Bahrami and Mojdeh (2010), also make it evident through their case study which shows that the heavy workloads as well as nurses having to stay back at work are common reasons for making medication errors. The excessive workload nurses face in a health care surrounding predisposes nurses to make common medication errors subsequently making it almost difficult to ensure medication safety whilst administering medication to
The heavy workloads predispose nurses to making common medication errors consequently becoming difficult to ensure medication safety for patients who are in the provision of care of nurses. Stratton, Blegen, Pepper and Vaughn (2004) have found in a case study that nurses reported staffing ratios and the amount of drugs being administered as being one of the main reasons why common medication errors occur. Another survey reported by Tang, Sheu, Yu, Wei and Chen (2007) have found that nurses from Taiwan also reported that a significant contributing factor to drug errors was due to strenuous workload. This depicts that, the heavy workload in a health care setting for nurses affects nurses to make common medication errors increasingly. Eslamian, Taheri, Bahrami and Mojdeh (2010), also make it evident through their case study which shows that the heavy workloads as well as nurses having to stay back at work are common reasons for making medication errors. The excessive workload nurses face in a health care surrounding predisposes nurses to make common medication errors subsequently making it almost difficult to ensure medication safety whilst administering medication to