Effect of Nursing Education Guidelines about High Alert Medications on Critical Care Nurses Knowledge and Practices.
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Nursing and health Science - Year 2019, Vol 7, Issue 1
Abstract
medication errors are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in medical profession and critical care. Literature review cited that about 80% of all deaths from medication errors are caused by high alert medications errors. Nurses’ knowledge and practice could contribute either positive or negative about this issue. Therefore, the Aim of the current study: was to evaluate the effect of nursing education guidelines, regarding high alert medications on critical care nurses’ knowledge and practices. . Design: One group Quazi - Experimental interrupted time series research design. Research hypotheses: H1: Nurses who will receive the nursing education guidelines about safe handling of high alert medications will have higher post total mean knowledge score than their pre mean total knowledge score. H2: Nurses who will receive the nursing education guidelines about safe handling of high alert medications will have higher post total mean practices scores than their pre mean total practice scores. Sample: Convenient sample of 44 adult male and female critical care nurses. Setting: three different Critical Care Units at one of the hospitals in Cairo were recruited to participate in the current study. Tools: Three tools were used to collect data pertinent to the study namely; Nurses’ demographic data sheet, Interview knowledge questionnaire schedule and High alert medications administration observational checklist. Results: The main study results revealed that the mean age of the study subjects was 28.6±6.1years, (65.9%) were females, the mean post-test knowledge and practices scores of nurses attending to the nursing education guidelines regarding high alert medications was significantly higher than their mean pre-test knowledge and practices scores.Conclusion: significant improvement in the mean nurses’ knowledge and practices were found after implementation of the nursing education guidelines which supports the study hypotheses with few declinment after three-months but still better than the pre-intervention mean knowledge and practices scores. Recommendations: the importance of continuous education for maintaining and improving quality nurses knowledge and practices regarding safe handling of high alert medications.
Authors and Affiliations
AmrZaherRady Yousef, WardaYousef Mohamed, FatmaShoeib Ali, EssamFouad Ali
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