Analysis of the study done on the prevention of medication errors in hospitals

According to the article by Salar, Kiani, and Nasrin, a nurse’s main job is to administer drugs to patients. As such, they are more prone to making medication errors compared to doctors. Statistically, 39% of all medication errors are made by doctors, 38% by nurses and 23% by pharmacies (Salar et al., 2020). In addition, nurses spend a third of their time administering drugs to patients, and most of the errors happen when there is a disruption of duties, for instance, if a nurse is called to administer drugs while taking care of a patient. Some of the causes for medication errors are inexperienced nurses being allowed to administer drugs, fatigue due to being overworked, long working shifts and sometimes double shifts with no breaks in between and not reading labels carefully (Salar et al., 2020). Therefore, most medication errors happen due to poor working conditions and carelessness.