Learning to liaise: using medication administration role-play to develop teamwork in undergraduate nurses

Abstract

This simulation exposed undergraduate nurses with limited clinical experience to a situation otherwise unavailable to them. The skills required to engage in effective liaison and teamwork in dynamic situations are vital elements in achieving quality care and must begin to be taught at an undergraduate level.

Development and Validation of the Nurse Prescribing Self-Efficacy Scale

“…Nevertheless, when we compared self-efficacy in supplementary prescribing and evidence-based practice between groups, we only found statistically significant differences between the group of nursing graduates (with no professional experience) and the group of nurses with more than 10 years’ experience. This could be related to the fact that evidence-based practice and collaborative work in drug administration and management are competencies embedded in most undergraduate nursing programs and are part of nurses’ daily working routine (Hayes et al, 2019; Lee & Queen, 2019; Sulosaary et al, 2015). In summary, the findings from the validity analysis suggest that the NP-SES could be used to assess nurses’ self-efficacy in nurse prescribing as an operational construct.…”

Nursing students’ perceptions of clinical learning opportunities and competence in administration of oral medication in the Western Cape

“…Nurses, amongst other healthcare professionals, still make medication errors (Cheragi et al 2013) and nursing students are also prone to make medication errors (Asensi-Vicente, Jiménez-Ruiz & Vizcaya-Moreno 2018; Cebeci et al 2015;Keshk & Mersal 2017;. Several studies have investigated the causes of medication errors by nurses and reported that the main causes are high workload and fatigue caused by extra work, recurrent interruptions during the process of administration of medication, a non-conducive environment for medication administration preparation and non-compliance to medication administration guidelines (Alomari et al 2018;Cebeci et al 2015;Hayes et al 2018;Zarea et al 2018). According to Cloete (2015), one-third of medication errors happen during administration by nurses.…”

Using Simulation-Based Education to Teach Interruption Management Skills: An Integrative Review

“…Application of exclusion criteria resulted in 10 final included articles: five qualitative, two simulation descriptions, and three quantitative (See Figure 1 , Page et al, 2021 ). However, four nursing student articles were based on one simulation, with three subsequent publications of findings ( Hayes et al, 2015( Hayes et al, , 2019Hayes et al, 2017Hayes et al, , 2018. Sample sizes ranged from 10 to 528, including populations of interdisciplinary students (n = 1 study), medical students (n = 3 studies), experienced nurses (n = 1 study), and five studies involving pre-licensure nursing students ( Table 1 ).…”