Medication errors are defined as, “discrepancy between physician's orders and medication delivery to the patient.” (Kocaman, Ozkan, Ozturk, & Seren 2011) In the article Frequency of Pediatric Medication Administration Errors and Contributing Factors, the study observed 25 nurses for three months. Each nurse worked a 12-hour shift. The study used the Organizational Accident Model to, “facilitate the analysis of error causation and the identification of error prevention methods.”(Kocaman, Ozkan, Ozturk, & Seren 2011) Furthermore, 2,344 doses of medication were administered and 855 were identified as errors. Error rates concluded to be between 5.1% and 40.4%. The most common medication errors were finalized as wrong time errors between 24-36
