Managing High-alert Medication Administration and Errors
- Conditions
- KnowledgeCompetenceNurse's RolePractice Nurse's ScopeError Disclosure
- Interventions
- Other: high-alert medication administration
- Registration Number
- NCT06366607
- Lead Sponsor
- Matrouh University
- Brief Summary
High-alert medications are drugs that may lead to serious harm when they are wrongly administered to patients. Safe medication administration is the crucial role of nursing staff.
- Detailed Description
High-alert medications are drugs that may lead to serious harm when they are wrongly administered to patients. Safe medication administration is the crucial role of nursing staff. This study aims to investigate the relationships between medication safety climate and nurses' knowledge about high-alert medications with managing their administration and errors.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 300
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Nurses
- willing to participate in the study
- work in surgical intensive and critical care units
- Sign a consent
- Nurses
- Work in outpatient units and other units
- Did not sign a consent
Study & Design
- Study Type
- OBSERVATIONAL
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description nurses high-alert medication administration Nurses worked in surgical intensive and critical care units
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Questionnaire to measure nurses' knowledge about high-alert medication administration one month Nurses' knowledge about high-alert medication administration as assessed binary scale.
Questionnaire to measure errors associated with administering high-alert medications one month Errors associated with administering high-alert medications as assessed using a binary scale ( Yes=1 , No=0)
Questionnaire to measure medication safety climate one month Medication safety climate as assessed using five-point Likert scale ranging from strongly disagree (1 point) to strongly agree (5 points).
Questionnaire to measure nurses' competency one month Nurses' competency during the administration of high-alert medications as assessed using five- Likert scales ((0 = not appropriate at all in administering high-alert medications up to 4 = very often appropriate in administering high-alert medications)
observational check list to measure nurses' practice during administration of high-alert medications one month Observing nurses' practice during the administration of high alert medications as assessed using five Likert scales (0=inappropriate practice up to 4=appropriate practice)
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Faculty of Nursing, Matrouh University
🇪🇬Mersa Matruh, Egypt