Managing High-alert Medication Administration and Errors

Matrouh University300 enrolled

Overview

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.

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.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

300

Conditions

Knowledge Practice Nurse's Scope Competence Nurse's Role Error Disclosure

Interventions

high-alert medication administrationOTHER

high-alert medication administration

Eligibility

Sex: ALL

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Nurses * willing to participate in the study * work in surgical intensive and critical care units * Sign a consent Exclusion Criteria: \- Nurses * Work in outpatient units and other units * Did not sign a consent

Locations (1)

Faculty of Nursing, Matrouh University

Marsá Maţrūḩ, Egypt

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Questionnaire to measure nurses' knowledge about high-alert medication administration

Nurses' knowledge about high-alert medication administration as assessed binary scale.

Time frame: one month

Questionnaire to measure medication safety climate

Medication safety climate as assessed using five-point Likert scale ranging from strongly disagree (1 point) to strongly agree (5 points).

Time frame: one month

Questionnaire to measure nurses' competency

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)

Time frame: one month

observational check list to measure nurses' practice during administration of high-alert medications

Observing nurses' practice during the administration of high alert medications as assessed using five Likert scales (0=inappropriate practice up to 4=appropriate practice)

Time frame: one month

Questionnaire to measure errors associated with administering high-alert medications

Errors associated with administering high-alert medications as assessed using a binary scale ( Yes=1 , No=0)

Time frame: one month

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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