F.M. Escandell Rico, Lucía Pérez-Fernández, J. Requena Puche, María Elena Ferrer Hernández, Ángela Sanjuán-Quiles
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Abstract
Objective: To know the nurses' perception of the factors that influence the safe administration of medications in the work context of the General University Hospital of Elda (Alicante), Spain. Method: This is a qualitative phenomenological study through interviews semi-structured in which 15 nurses chosen by deliberate sampling participated. Results: The participants expressed concern about the performance of the medication administration procedures, which made it possible to perceive safety as the greatest concern in the study unit. A main category called “knowing” was established, which encompasses all the reflections about the nurse's performance during the medication administration process. The following subcategories are developed from this main category: work overload, insufficient training, distractions, and communication and information failures. Conclusion: Knowing the nurses' perception of the factors that influence the safe administration of medications could facilitate the use of instruments to standardize and reduce variability in the safe administration of medications. As well as improving conditions in work environments and not favoring social, personal and professional stigmatization due to care error.
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Esta revista surge con la finalidad de servir de soporte de enlace entre la actividad investigadora, especialmente en los campos señalados y las diferentes vertientes que, desarrolladas por profesionales de enfermería están cimentando las bases del humanismo enfermero sin cuya existencia y esmerada potenciación resultará del todo imposible alcanzar ni tan siquiera los lindes de ese objetivo tan legítimo como largamente anhelado: el desarrollo pleno de la enfermería en todas sus dimensiones. La necesidad del conocimiento previo de las culturas como único camino para preservar los niveles mínimos de respeto y dignidad en todo abordaje investigador y/o educativo, revela, por sí misma la dimensión pragmática del quehacer histórico, antropológico y humanístico en los cuidados enfermeros. La longevidad y salud de un propósito cómo éste dependerá de las variables de siempre. Hacemos por tanto una llamada a investigadores de la teoría, la filosofía y el desarrollo práctico de modelos y métodos enfermeros, la historia de la enfermería, la antropología de los cuidados enfermeros, la fenomenología y, por ende, a los compañeros y compañeras interesados en publicar sus narraciones, poesías y todas aquellas actividades que destaquen por su carácter humanístico. La intencionalidad de esta convocatoria no se reduce a la colaboración puntual, sino que esta revista pretende convertirse en un espacio abierto al debate, además del "ejercicio del criterio" (en expresión de Benedetti), se estimule la actividad investigadora y humanística erigiéndose en catalizadora de acciones tales como la convocatoria anual del premio "Vida y Salud" de Narrativa y video. Si el camino se hace andando hemos comenzado a dar pasos, pero resultará del todo imposible seguir caminando en la soledad por eso esperamos vuestro apoyo y colaboración.