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Volume 6, Issue 4 (Suppl)
J Nurs Care, an open access journal
ISSN: 2167-1168
Euro Nursing 2017
October 26-28, 2017
32
nd
EURO
NURSING AND MEDICARE SUMMIT
October 26-28, 2017 | Paris, France
Evaluatıon of nurses attitudes and behaviors related to medical errors
Abdurrezzak Gultekin
1
, Aysel Özdemir
2
and
Funda Budak
3
1
Inonu University, Turkey 2Inonu University, Turkey
3
Inonu University, Turkey
Objectives
: This research was conducted descriptively to identify nurses attitudes and behaviors related to medical errors.
Methods
: The research was conducted in a university hospital between March 2017 and May 2017. The universe of the
research was created by all the nurses working in a university hospital. All nurses who accepted the research were taken
into considertion without going to the selection of the sample. In the collection of the data, a questionnaire containing the
descriptive characteristics of the patients, attitudes towards medical malpractices and behavioral scale were used.
Results
: 64.9% of the nurses participating in the study are between the ages of 18-28, 72.2% are women, 51.7% are single, 88.1%
are working for 1-10 years and 66.9% are doing their jobs fondly. In the study, the total score of nurses attitude and behavioral
scales in medical malpractice was 198.980±22.73. Research in the medical profession by making mistakes loving attitude and
behavior scale compared to the difference found when the total average score is statistically significant (p˂0.05) The attitudes
and behaviors of the nurses who have professed their profession were found higher in medical malpractices. There was no
statistically significant difference (˂0.05) when comparing the mean score of attitude and behavior scale in gender and medical
malpractice in the study.
Conclusions
: In the research, nurses' attitudes and behavior levels on medical errors were high. It may be advisable to arrange
nurses' training to raise awareness about and reduce medical errors.
Biography
Abdurrezzak Gültekin graduated from Adnan University Nursing Faculty in 2013. He was a Research Assistant in Pamukkale University from 2014 to 2016. He is
currently pursuing Master’s degree in Pschiatry Nursing. He is a Research Assistant in Inonu University since 8 months.
abdurrezzak.gultekin@inonu.edu.trAbdurrezzak Gultekin et al., J Nurs Care 2017, 6:4(Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2167-1168-C1-061