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1- In this week’s discussion post, I will be appraising the Exploration of Nurses’ Knowledge, Attitudes, and Perceived Barriers toward Medication Error Reporting in a Tertiary Health Care Facility: A Qualitative Approach. When discussing the first consideration for an appraisal which is, elements of style, the research study checked all of the boxes. The statement of phenomenon of interest, the method, the purpose, sampling, authenticity and trustworthiness of data, finding, and conclusions were all met as well. When discussing the ethical considerations the protection of the participants was addressed in the article on the first paragraph on page 3. The data collection in the article was focused on human experience, the researcher mentioned that they were going to conduct their research by interviewing each participant, they had extensive data on how the participants are feeling, and the way that the researchers recorded the data was appropriate. Lastly, the procedure for collecting data started with an “in-depth interview session” (p.g 3) that was roughly 30-45 minutes long and the participants were asked probing questions as well to provoke a more revealing answer.The data analysis was performed by using the “thematic analysis approach” (p.g 3). Which is were the participants’ responses were coded in a specific letter and number. The data analysis strategy was to start in a familiarized stage, then the initial code stage, and then the finalized code stage. If I was the appraising committee for research studies I would go ahead and appraise this study. Now looking into the strengths and weaknesses of this study would be the following. Something that I would consider a weakness in this particular study is the amount of participants and that the research team did not go to any other medical facility. If they would have gone to different medical facilities that would increase the number of participants and it would also give them a different perspective on how other facilities and the people in them feel about reporting medication errors. As to the rest of the study I believe that it was all good. 2- In the Tertiary Health care facility, the qualitative research study investigates the nurses’ understanding of the various drug mistake reporting mechanisms, their attitudes toward them, and their perceived hurdles to doing so. Based on the article, it is noteworthy that medication error reporting (MER) appears to be a much more successful strategy that is employed in the discovery of the underlying causes of various medication errors (MEs) and aids in their future control in other companies (Dyab et al.,2018). One major issue raised in many MER systems across numerous healthcare institutions is the inadequate reporting of the MEs. This research aimed to comprehend nurses’ comprehension of MER by assessing nurses’ attitudes toward revealing and examining nurses’ asserting conveniences and obstacles. The qualitative investigation is, nevertheless, divided into many strengths and disadvantages. Arguably, the study’s greatest asset is its assertion that Medication Error Reporting (MER) is a far more efficient technique to pinpoint the essential reasons behind Medication Errors (ME) and devise strategies to stop them from happening again inside the company(Dyab et al.,2018). The study also demonstrates that the inadequate reporting of MEs is observed in several MER platforms. The study’s main goal was to explore the nurses’ comprehension of MER by identifying their reporting perspectives and obstacles and facilitators to MER. The study is helpful because it demonstrates strategies that may be used to increase nurses’ involvement in MER in the company context. In this qualitative research study, drawbacks are also listed for the study. The study needs to dive into more depth about Medication Error Reporting (MER) or the many strategies that may be employed within the context of an organization to guarantee that the procedure is carried out successfully. The article does not demonstrate whether to implement MER; it simply emphasizes the significance of MER and how it may be used to discover pharmaceutical mistakes (MEs). Because the study is exploratory qualitative, bias of generalizability was experienced in which the study used the convenience techniques of interviewing data collection method. This would lead to chances of incorrect understanding or wrong interpretation of data collected that would mislead the reporting of MEs observed in MER.
