List of Easily Mistakable Injections with Photographs and Its Evaluation

A list of easily mistakable injections with photographs was distributed to all wards and outpatient consulting rooms at Yamagata University Hospital to reduce the mistaken use of injections. Many of them were injections with similar names or those that look-alike. A questionnaire regarding the list was then given to all the nurses in our hospital to enable us to evaluate it and learn about other easily mistakable injections not included in the list.More than 92% of the nurses answered that they knew of the list, and 88.1% of them refbrred to it. Unfortunately, only 12.8% answered that they knew all the injections on the list and 75.7% said that there were some that they did not know. The nurses were impressed with the list because it included photographs of the injections, and said it was useful for preventing mistakes in selecting injections as well as for educating other nurses and trainee nurses. Some injections that nurses had mistakenly used in the past were not on the list Thus the list was useful in preventing mistakes in selecting injections. However, it should be occasionally revised to include other easily mistaken injections mentioned by nurses and new injections that have recently been added; and those that are no longer available should be deleted.