Evaluation of students' knowledge about paediatric dosage calculations

<p>The Correlation between Mathematics Anxiety, Numerical Ability and Drug Calculation Ability of Paramedic Students: An Explanatory Mixed Method Study</p>

“…Advances in Medical Education and Practice 2020:11 without using the mind and the manual calculations. Our finding was supported by Özyazıcıoğlu et al, 23 who reported that the use of calculators by students and practicing nurses is known to significantly reduce calculation errors. 23 However, the use of calculators can increase conceptual errors due to providing a false security sense.…”

“…Our finding was supported by Özyazıcıoğlu et al, 23 who reported that the use of calculators by students and practicing nurses is known to significantly reduce calculation errors. 23 However, the use of calculators can increase conceptual errors due to providing a false security sense. 7 Our findings demonstrated a significant positive relationship between participants' numerical and drug calculation ability levels (r= 0.44, p<0.001) that agreed with McMullan et al's 7 finding in Nursing students in 2012 (r= 0.58).…”

The relationship between math personality, math anxiety, test preparation strategy and medication dose calculations in first year nursing students

“…Nurses spend a significant amount of time administering medications and yet medication errors continue; a significant proportion of these errors involve calculation errors in medications such as anti-infective or cardiac drugs, for which errors produce potential significant harm. [18,19,21] Successful nursing student education that results in accurate calculation of medication doses is important to reduce medication errors in practice. Understanding the key factors that lead to reduced ability to accurately perform mediation dose calculations can provide opportunities to devise educational program factors that will improve accuracy of medication dose calculations in nursing students in order to improve medication safety in patients.…”

“…[1,[18][19][20][21] Errors in calculation when administering medication often result in significant harm to patients. [21][22][23][24] Despite the importance of this skill, there is evidence that nursing students often lack a solid foundation in the ability to accurately calculate medication doses. [4-7, 15, 25, 26] Effective education to ensure accurate medication dose calculations can play a key role in reducing medication errors.…”

Outcomes of a Drug Dosage Calculation Training Smartphone App on Learning Achievement, Metacognition, and Flow State According to Prior Knowledge

“…Medication administration is considered to be one of the most important responsibilities of nurses, for whom dosage calculation competence is a crucial skill, because medication administration errors related to wrong dosage committed by registered nurses are common (Fathi et al, 2017). Nursing students showed relatively low dosage calculation competence in several studies (McMullan, Jones, & Lea, 2010;Özyazıcıoğlu et al, 2017). Further, the mean score of drug calculation skill of registered nurses showed unacceptable results at 60%, and about half of them failed basic numerical skill tests (McMullan et al, 2010).…”