The Types and Causes of Medication Error and Barriers in Reporting it in Internship Nursing Students in Hamadan Nursing Midwifery Faculty

Background and Objective: The risk of medication errors in internship nursing students is due to independence in practice that identification of medication errors is essential for protecting patient safety. The aim of this study was to investigate the types and causes of medication error and barriers in reporting it in internship nursing students. Materials and Methods: This Descriptive-analytic study done with the census method on 87 internship nursing students. The researcher with referring to the hospitals related to Hamadan University of Medical Sciences delivered to students a four parts questionnaire which includes demographic data, types of drug error within three months, factors affecting on incidence error and reasons to refuse to report the error. The data were analyzed with SPSS16 using descriptive and Chi-square and