Nurses' Drug Knowledge

Evaluation of the attitudes of the nurses related to rational drug use in Gaziantep University Sahinbey Research and Practice Hospital in Turkey

“…Consistent with the conclusion reached by Aştı and Kıvanç (2003) who did not observe a significant relation between years of professional experience of nurses and their level of knowledge regarding drugs, our results did not demonstrate a marked association of professional experience with knowledge on medicines either. Similar to our findings, in the study of Boggs et al (1988), greater knowledge on medicines was observed with increased education level but professional experience did not seem to have an effect on the knowledge level. In a separate study which investigated the knowledge of nurses about drugs, it was found that particularly lack of knowledge on side effects of drugs was a major concern among nurses and in contrast to our findings, they found that the level of pharmacological knowledge was positively affected by experience (Ives et al, 1996).…”

Medication knowledge and willingness to nurse‐initiate medications in an emergency department: a mixed‐methods study

“…Many studies described nurses' medication knowledge as somewhat lacking for practice (Markowitz et al 1981, Boggs et al 1988, Sodha et al 2002, Ndosi & Newell 2009, Simonsen et al 2011. Many studies described nurses' medication knowledge as somewhat lacking for practice (Markowitz et al 1981, Boggs et al 1988, Sodha et al 2002, Ndosi & Newell 2009, Simonsen et al 2011.…”

Finnish nurses’ and nursing students’ pharmacological skills

“…The maximum score for actual skills was attained by only a few nurses. However, over half of nurses obtained a score of 79% correct, which can be considered quite adequate (Boggs et al. 1988, Ives et al.…”

“…Several studies have found that the actual pharmacological knowledge of nurses (Boggs et al. 1988, Ives et al.…”

“…2000, Manias & Bullock 2002b). Boggs et al. (1988) studied nurses’ actual pharmacology knowledge by testing their knowledge of three commonly prescribed drugs ( n = 182) by use of a multiple‐choice test.…”