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Nurse Fatigue And Medication Errors. 18 Minimal data however are available in the perioperative setting related to fatigue and increased errors. Hospitals in which nurses work long hours have higher rates of patients deaths from pneumonia and acute myocardial infarction according to a study. Hospital nurses leaves many with serious sleep deprivation a higher risk of health problems and more odds of making patient errors according to a University of Maryland Baltimore UMB study. Stress impacts productivity to the detriment of physical or mental health 1.
Interns have significant risk of depression which correlates with increased likelihood of self-documented and supervisor noted medical errors 17. Medication errors are the third leading cause of preventable death. Two of these errors seem to originate with the physician or the prescriber of the medication. Wrong time and wrong rate were the most frequent medication errors 231 each. One of the findings from a 5-year Australian longitudinal study on nursing units showed that medication errors increased with more delays in nursing tasks per shift Duffield et al 2011. The findings did not illustrate a significant relationship between job satisfaction and fatigue with medication errors.
Hospitals in which nurses work long hours have higher rates of patients deaths from pneumonia and acute myocardial infarction according to a study.
Study Reveals Widespread Fatigue Risk for Errors with 12-Hour Nursing Shifts. Nursing fatigue is a current and well-researched topic. For hospitalized patients the likelihood of pneumonia deaths significantly increased when nurses worked longer than 13 hours and had less than 10 hours of rest between two consecutive shifts Trinkoff et. Interns have significant risk of depression which correlates with increased likelihood of self-documented and supervisor noted medical errors 17. Hospitals in which nurses work long hours have higher rates of patients deaths from pneumonia and acute myocardial infarction according to a study. Among the demographic characteristics age of nurses was significantly associated with the frequency of medication errors p0037.