Introduction:

Nursing professionals are responsible for using safe practices during drug administration to children, otherwise incur ethical and legal problems.

Objective:

To describe the perception of nurses concerning safety during drug delivery to hospitalized children in the Lambayeque Regional Hospital, Peru.

Methods:

Descriptive qualitative study, the sample was 10 nurses, the half-structure interview and content analysis was used.

Results:

Safe practices with correct information about the child, medicine, records and family; identification and unsafe handling of adverse reactions; need for environment, inputs, and training protocols to prevent errors in the management of pediatric medicines.

Conclusion:

Nurses apply the five rights, evidenced by medical indications in the medical record, the patient and the pharmacological characteristics of the medication, using institutional clinical guidelines. Recognize the support of familiar companion observation of adverse reactions, but there is failure to complete notification of these. Also they declare the lack of inputs, lack of protocols that could threaten safety in medication administration. Requiring ongoing training and the establishment of security policies incentivising changes between health professionals to quality and safety in medications administration.

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