An Advanced Medication Administration Experience to Promote Students' Knowledge Acquisition in the Skill of Administering Medications

Skill acquisition of safe medication administration through realistic simulation: an integrative review

“…Acquisition in the Skill of Administering Medications (29) To verify whether an advanced simulation improves student performance for administering medications in the surgical medical examination.…”

A National Survey of Medication Dosage Calculation Teaching Methods and Competency Criteria on Nursing Student Success: Recommendations for Nurse Educators

“…Although students are expected to practice MDC within clinical and laboratory settings (Breitkreuz et al, 2016; Kelly et al, 2018; Koharchik & Flavin, 2017), only 22.8 percent of programs included skills laboratory/hands-on application. This finding suggests that most students are integrating medication administration only within traditional clinical experiences.…”

“…This finding suggests that most students are integrating medication administration only within traditional clinical experiences. This is problematic as students have limited opportunities to administer medications because of high faculty-to-student ratios, facility restrictions, and complicated electronic health records, as well as the potential to harm patients by administering medication incorrectly (Amster et al, 2015; Bush et al, 2015; Chan et al, 2019; Jarvill, 2020; Kelly et al, 2018; Kuo et al, 2020). These barriers inhibit practice opportunities necessary to learn from mistakes, practice critical thinking skills, and place MDC into clinical context (Craig et al, 2021).…”

Assessing Nursing Students’ Self-Perceptions about Safe Medication Management: Design and Validation of a Tool, the NURSPeM

“…Furthermore, because nurses' perceptions of their knowledge, skills, and attitudes in relation to safe medication management are likely to change with experience, the tool may be used to track nursing students' development in relation to different aspects of the construct and to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions aimed at enhancing these areas of learning (Lee and Quinn 2019), including in real-life clinical practice. Various authors [16,18,19,43] have highlighted the importance of medication competence among both registered and student nurses, insofar as it is they, as the last link in the drug therapy chain, who are ultimately responsible for administration, where errors are most common [5,6]. However, attitudes towards safe medication management are also important and may be regarded as the first step in the process of ensuring safe practices [12,21].…”

“…In the literature on the safe management of medication, some of the most widely studied issues are types of error in professional nursing practice and a description of the causes [12][13][14][15], assessment of dose calculation competence and medication administration skills among both registered nurses and students [16,17], and teaching strategies for improving nurses' medication competence and awareness [18][19][20]. However, some authors have focused their attention on more intangible elements of the process, such as the nursing role in safe medication administration [21][22][23], clinical reasoning, decision making [10,[23][24][25] and nurses' thinking process during medication administration [26,27].…”