Study on nurses' intention of medication safety behavior in a tertiary general hospital in Yinchuan City: A Cross-Sectional Study

Background Medication errors are common medical errors, which pose a serious threat to the safety of patients. Nurses are the main participants in medication errors. Although factors such as professional titles, systems, and regulations can affect the occurrence of medication errors among nurses. However, it is not clever that, Whether the potential profile of nurses' medication safety behavior intention can affect the outcome of safe medication outcome. Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore and analyse the potential profile of nurses' medication safety behavior intention in the tertiary general hospital, and provide the basis for nurses to formulate targeted intervention programs for medication safety. Methods Using convenience sampling, 347 nurses from a tertiary general hospital in Yinchuan City were selected from October to December 2024 as research subjects. They were surveyed using a general information questionnaire and the Theory of Planned Behavior Medication Safety Questionnaire. Mplus 8.0 software was used to perform profile analysis on the scores of various dimensions of nurses' medication safety behavior intentions. Differences in general information and medication safety behavior intentions among nurses with different profiles were compared through univariate analysis and logistic regression. Results The findings revealed that nurses' medication safety behavior intention patterns were divided into two categories: low safety awareness type (282 cases) and high safety awareness type (65 cases). Factors such as education level, department, departmental medication safety guidelines, systems or process specifications, and whether they had received training on communication and cooperation with other medication-related personnel influenced the latent profiles of nurses' medication safety behavior intentions (all P  < 0.05). Conclusions The study highlights the importance of nurses' medication safety behavior intention model can be divided into two categories: low safety awareness and high safety awareness, indicating qualitatively different group differences. These are closely related to education level, department, departmental medication safety guidelines, systems or process specifications, and whether training on communication and cooperation with other medication-related personnel has been received. This suggests that managers should develop individualized interventions based on the characteristics of nurses in different profiles to improve the level of nurses' medication safety behavior intentions. Clinical trial number Not applicable.