Identification of the main factors and conditions contributing to medication errors allows clinical nurses and administration systems to eliminate situations that promote errors and to incorporate changes that minimize them, creating a safer patient environment.

Survey results suggest that nurses should double check medication administration in known high-alert situations. Nursing management can use snowball sampling to gather error details from nurses in a non-reprimanding atmosphere, helping to establish standard operational procedures for known high-alert situations.

Adherence with prescription medications among elderly patients with cardiac conditions is poor. Mechanisms underlying adherence behavior have not been fully investigated. The purpose of this study was to develop a substantive model that describes medication-taking behavior in elderly individuals with chronic diseases. The study was exploratory using grounded theory. Purposive sampling was used to recruit 19 elderly cardiac patients. Four major themes were delineated from the data to describe readiness to adhere: perceived effectiveness, perceived partnership, perceived reality, and interpersonal influences. To convert perceptions into actions, 2 influencing factors, facilitating and inhibiting factors, played pivotal roles. This model could provide a useful framework for health professionals to design valid interventions for elderly patients to increase medication adherence.

This preliminary study found that Kegel's exercises may have a positive impact on the quality of life in patients undergoing anal sphincter preserving surgery.

This cross-sectional study was conducted to examine 256 Muslim nurses' perception of spirituality and spiritual care in Indonesia. The Spirituality and Spiritual Care Rating Scale (SSCRS) was translated and culturally adapted. Moderately high degrees in five domains and total SSCRS were found. Specialty, education level, clinical seniority, having spiritual training, and previous spiritual caring experience could impact on the SSCRS. Most nurses have cared for patients with spiritual needs, but denied having any formal training in providing spiritual care. Providing adequate curriculum and on-job training to equip nurses' knowledge and competence of spiritual care is urgent in Muslim healthcare environment.