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Learning Objective 1: the learners will be able to know the changed of medication administration errors rate from 2005 to 2012 in Taiwan.
Learning Objective 2: the learners will be able to know the changed of nurses burnout status from 2005 to 2012 in Taiwan.
Methods: The cross-sectional study was conducted two surveys in Taiwan. Nurses voluntarily participated in this study. Nurses were excluded if they were a supervisor, clinical nurse specialist, or dean of a department. 93% (563/605) in 2005 and 84.4% (389/461) participants completed the structured questionnaire. Data was collected from February 1, 2005 to March 15, 2005 and April 1 to October 30, 2012. The following instruments were used: Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), personal features, and one question asked for experience of MAE (Yes/ No). Chi-square was used to compare the changing of the prevalence of MAE and the burnout of nurses.
Results: The results indicated that the nurses reported experiencing MAE was significantly decreased, from 65.5% (369/563) in 2005 to 53% (206/389) in 2012 (χ2 =15.23, p<.001). Nurses experienced median (27.5% vs 32.8%) and high level (19.0% vs 24.8%) emotional exhaustion of MBI was decreased in 2012 when compared with 2005 (χ2 =11.46, p=.003). Nurses reported higher burnout of personal accomplishments in 2012 (15.4% vs 22.7%,χ2 =7.96, p=.019) than 2005. Nurses experienced similarity high level (91.5% vs 87.9%,χ2=5.54, p=.063) depersonalization of MBI.
Conclusion: This study demonstrates that the prevalence of MAE was decreased, but still over 50% nurses reported experience. Although nurses’ emotional exhaustion of burnout wwas diminished, but nurses still experienced high personal accomplishments and depersonalization of burnout.