Introduction: Medication errors are considered as important threatening challenges for health systems in all countries. They are also perceived as one of the most threatening factors for patient safety. Health education centers are intensively predisposed to a spectrum of medical errors occurrence due to students who learn in these centers. Therefore, this study was conducted to survey the reasons for not reporting errors regarding nursing students and nurses.
Methods: In this descriptive-analytical comparative study 94 nursing students and nurses who worked in Khatamolanbia hospital of Zahedan participated in 2014. Data were collected using the questionnaire of not reporting medical errors. SPSS software was used for the analysis.
Results: The results showed that the mean score for being afraid to report consequences, management factors reporting, and medication errors were (73.28±7.58), (14.30±3.38), and (8.63±2.49) for nursing students respectively, in addition, the scores of (34.9±9.84), (12.9±3.59), and (8.82±2.52) were obtained for nurses respectively. The results of parametric T-test regarding the two groups showed that there was a statistically significant difference between both groups (P≥0.05).
Conclusion: Medical errors are considered as one of the most important issues in health care environments. So, the use of these methods depends on adopting a systematic approach to survey predisposition factors and removing them as well as designing a system to increase error reporting rate by nursing students and nurses to decrease and control such errors. تفاصيل المقالة

Introduction: Surveying and diagnosing patient safety culture is a key step to improve the health and patient safety culture, which generally is provided by surveying of providers and measuring globally. So the present study aimed to survey and evaluate patient safety culture among nurses in hospitals affiliated to Zahedan university of medical science.
Methods: This descriptive-analytical, cross-sectional study was conducted in 2014. In order to collect data, a questionnaire was developed to survey patient safety culture on 400 nurses in hospitals related to Zahedan university of medical sciences. The results were analyzed using SPSS software. The required tests such as T-test, ANOVA, and Spearman correlation coefficient were used.
Results: The results of the present study showed that the score of patient safety culture for each aspect of it was low. Findings also showed that items such as general perception to patient safety, management support, and organizational learning and permanent promotion in Khatam ol Anbia, Ali Ibn Abi Taleb, and Bu Ali hospitals had the highest scores, while hospital patient transfer and exchange of information, manager’s actions, expectation to promote patient safety, and related issues to staffs had the lowest scores
Conclusion: Patient safety care is necessary for providing an appropriate and efficient healthcare. So the organizations which provide healthcare services must establish a comprehensive and regular system based on the processes of patient safety promotion to decrease errors. They should also be responsive to injured people through establishing a patient safety culture and maintaining appropriate organizational mechanisms. تفاصيل المقالة