Medication Safety Climate: Managing High-alert Medication Administration and Errors Among Nurses in Intensive and Critical Care Units
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 300
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Questionnaire to measure nurses' knowledge about high-alert medication administration
研究概览
简要总结
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.
详细描述
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.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Other
- 时间视角
- Cross Sectional
入排标准
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •willing to participate in the study
- •work in surgical intensive and critical care units
- •Sign a consent
排除标准
- •Work in outpatient units and other units
- •Did not sign a consent
结局指标
主要结局
Questionnaire to measure nurses' knowledge about high-alert medication administration
时间窗: one month
Nurses' knowledge about high-alert medication administration as assessed binary scale.
Questionnaire to measure medication safety climate
时间窗: 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
时间窗: 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)
Questionnaire to measure errors associated with administering high-alert medications
时间窗: one month
Errors associated with administering high-alert medications as assessed using a binary scale ( Yes=1 , No=0)
observational check list to measure nurses' practice during administration of high-alert medications
时间窗: 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)
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Nagah Abd El-Fattah Mohamed Aly
Assistant professor of Nursing administration
Matrouh University