Background: This study was conducted to examine the application errors of nurses working in paediatric units regarding parenteral drug administration. Methodology: The study was conducted with 65 paediatric nurses working in the Paediatrics Units of Istanbul Bakırköy Dr Sadi Konuk Training and Research Hospital between June 2015 and September 2015. The data of 38 nurses who were observed out of 50 nurses who accepted the study and got the lowest score on the Malpractice Tendency Scale (MTS) were also evaluated in this study. Results: While the MTS scale total score of paediatric nurses was found to be 229.14 ± 14.64, the highest mean score of the subscales was 'communication' (22.93 ± 2.41), the lowest mean score was obtained from the "hospital monitoring and equipment and equipment safety" (40.57 ± 4.20) subscale. Most of the nurses' medication administration errors, respectively; they stated that the number of patients (77%) and the excessive working hours (75.4%) were due to reasons such as fatigue (70.5%), not having enough information about the drug (63.9%). The positive behaviours observed by the researcher regarding the drug administration process of the nurses; while nurses placed the medicine cabinet in accordance with the characteristics of the medicine (97.3%), sent the drugs to be given as infusion in appropriate liquid and amount (97.3%) and washed their hands before treatment (94.7%), negative behaviours were observed; nurses did not take any measures to prevent noise in the environment (100%), did not make the drug preparation in the treatment room (97.4%), did not consider the dry powder volume when calculating the drug dose (97.3%) and did not use a calculator (97.3%) has been. Conclusion: In order to prevent medication errors, a corporate culture for drug safety should be established, post-graduate training for nurses should be provided and practices should be monitored.

Bacground: The aim of the study is to determine the level of compassion and affecting factors among Emergency Department (ED) health workers. Methodology: The Compassion Scale, which was developed by Pommier in 2011 and was adapted to Turkish, was used in the evaluation of the level of compassion of the Training and Research Hospital ED staff, who had more than 500 patient admissions per day. Results: The mean age of 84 ED health workers included in the study was 27.20±5.430, 32.2% were male and 67.8% were female. 41.7% (n=35) of the ED health workers were Emergency Doctors and 58.3% were Emergency Nurses. Women's "Kindness", "Common humanity" and "Mindfulness" compassion subgroup average scores were found to be higher than men (15.859±2.538 versus 15.000±3.637; 16.859±2.488 versus 16.037±3.345; 16.245±1.606 versus 14.777±3.467). Women's ‘’Indifference’’, ‘’Separation’’ and ‘’Disengagement’’ compassion subgroup average scores were found to be lower than men (7.736±2.560 versus 8.740±3.323; 77.666±2.502 versus 9.222±2.939; 7.350±2.371 versus 9.407±3.388). Emergency Nurses' "Kindness", "Common humanity" and "Mindfulness" compassion subgroup scores were higher than Emergency Doctors (16.510±2.509 versus 14.285±3.044; 17.163±2.124 versus 15.800±3.411; 16.0816±2.0997 versus 15.3429±2.8382). Emergency Nurses' ‘’Indifference’’, ‘’Separation’’ ve ‘’Disengagement’’ compassion subgroup scores were lower than Emergency Doctors (7.061±2.135 versus 9.457±3.146; 7.591±2.317 versus 8.971±3.082; 7.122±2.412 versus 9.257±3.061). Conclusion: The compassion levels of female ED health workers were higher than that of male ED health workers and the level of compassion of Emergency Nurses was higher than that of Emergency Doctors.