Nurses’ perceptions of their pharmacology educational needs

King, Rachel

doi:10.1046/j.1365-2648.2003.02922.x

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“…[8,[12][13][14][15] Several factors have been found to contribute to inadequate pain assessment and management in children. [16][17][18] These factors include lack of knowledge, poor communication between children and/or families from one side and nurses from the other side, misconceptions and negative attitudes that nurses have about pain in children. Organisational culture is also another important factor come to play.…”

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Knowledge and attitudes of Jordanian nursing students toward children’s pain assessment and management: A cross-sectional study

Omari

2015

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Successful pain assessment and management require nurses with sufficient knowledge and appropriate attitudes. A cross-sectional study was conducted to test the nursing students' knowledge and attitudes toward children's pain management across three private universities in Jordan. A convenient sample of 101 nursing students completed the Paediatric Nurses' Knowledge and Attitudes Survey (PNKAS). The total mean score on the PNKAS scale was 18.36% (SD = +6.30), with a minimum score of 8 and a maximum score of 40. The results showed that Jordanian nursing students have poor knowledge and attitudes towards paediatric pain assessment and management. Jordanian nursing students need more educational materials throughout their study plans and curriculums in regards to paediatric pain assessment and management.

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“…Organisational culture is also another important factor come to play. [16][17][18] One of the recommended solutions to overcome these difficulties, nurses are required to be prepared during their undergradu-ate studies with necessary pain assessment and management knowledge.…”

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Knowledge and attitudes of Jordanian nursing students toward children’s pain assessment and management: A cross-sectional study

Omari

2015

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“…Nurses' working roles that require pharmacological knowledge have been identified as drug administration, patient assessment, nurse prescribing and patient medication education, and the need to have an expanded knowledge has been recognized due to most nurses' limited understanding of pharmacology. [20] Medication is a very important part of the treatment of RA due to its incurable nature. [21] Pharmacological treatments have changed significantly [4] and some nurses feel that their lack of pharmacology knowledge causes them anxiety, and as a result they lack confidence in providing patient medication education.…”

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“…[21] Pharmacological treatments have changed significantly [4] and some nurses feel that their lack of pharmacology knowledge causes them anxiety, and as a result they lack confidence in providing patient medication education. [20] Nurses also brought up views of the impact of RA on everyday life. Nurses' own attitudes towards RA varied and this was shown in the expressions they used.…”

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The educational needs of nursing staff taking care of patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Romppanen

Rantanen

Kuokkanen

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Objective: This study looks to describe the kind of education needed by nurses taking care of patients with Rheumatoid arthritis. Methods: Survey data concerning nurses' educational needs was collected from 11 hospitals with 33 units in two of the biggest hospital districts in Finland. The data was analyzed using thematic and summative content analysis. Results: The educational needs of nurses concerned medicinal treatment as an entirety, multiform information about RA, multiform treatment processes of RA, specified questions of care of RA patients, RA as a part of the everyday life of the RA patient and his/her family, the emotional nursing of the RA patient and his/her loved ones, and the strengthening of nurses' abilities to encounter patients. Education needs concerning medical issues comprised 76% of the responses. Needs connected to special questions of care covered 15%, and needs connected to emotional nursing, the patients' everyday life and to encounters with RA patients and their loved ones comprised 9%. Conclusions: Nurses wanted to strengthen their information base in all areas, especially those which were medically related. Educational needs concerning other professionals' areas of knowledge (e.g., physiotherapist) might indicate that nurses want to offer all-encompassing care to their patients.

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“…Nurses need to have adequate knowledge in pharmacology to provide safe, high-quality care to their patients. Some studies suggest there is a lack of student knowledge in pharmacology, and some practicing nurses do not have a suffi cient understanding of pharmacology (Dilles, Vander Stichele, Van Bortel, & Elseviers, 2011;King, 2004).One strategy for increasing student recognition of medication names and their classifi cations is through the use of pharmacology timed tables. Pharmacology timed tables require the student to match preselected medications with their appropriate therapeutic classifi cations.…”

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Evaluating Student Learning in an Undergraduate Pharmacology Nursing Course Using Pharmacology Timed Tables

Pompey

2012

J Nurs Educ

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Nurses' roles related to administering, prescribing, and educating patients about their medications are expanding. Nurses need to have adequate knowledge in pharmacology to provide safe, high-quality care to their patients. Some studies suggest there is a lack of student knowledge in pharmacology, and some practicing nurses do not have a suffi cient understanding of pharmacology (Dilles, Vander Stichele, Van Bortel, & Elseviers, 2011;King, 2004).One strategy for increasing student recognition of medication names and their classifi cations is through the use of pharmacology timed tables. Pharmacology timed tables require the student to match preselected medications with their appropriate therapeutic classifi cations. These timed tables were used to evaluate student knowledge regarding medications in an undergraduate pharmacology nursing course. Construction of the Pharmacology Timed TablesNursing students enrolled in an undergraduate pharmacology course were fi rst given information regarding medications and their appropriate classifi cations in lecture. The students were also given a list of medications and classifi cations to study independently at least 2 weeks prior to testing. For example, one study list for antibiotics included penicillins, fl uoroquinolones, and macrolides. Some specifi c individual medications listed were amoxicillin, ampicillin, ciprofl oxacin, levofl oxacin, erythromycin, and azithromycin. The names of the individual medications were then entered into a remote-clicker computer program that allowed each name to be displayed separately on a projector screen and to be changed quickly to the next medication.When the actual testing time occurred, the students were divided into three to four groups, depending on the number of students in the class. Each group had a different list of medications to match to their appropriate classifi cations. Using the remote-clicker program, an LCD projector, and a timer, an individual medication would appear on the projector screen for 10 seconds (the timer was used to count down the 10-second intervals) for a total of 10 medications. Each student in each group had to identify (or write down) the correct classification of each individual medication. A list of all 10 medications appeared on the screen after all the medications had been displayed individually, and the students were then allowed an additional 30 seconds to review their decisions and make any changes. The timed tables were administered prior to each written unit test and were counted for a total of 10% of their course grade. Summary and RecommendationsPharmacology timed tables offer a unique method for evaluating student learning in relation to medications. Students enrolled in the undergraduate pharmacology nursing course have scored 90% or higher on the timed tables for the past 2 years. They are able to quickly recognize and associate individual medications with their appropriate classifi cations.The knowledge related to sight recognition of medications and their classifi cations can be benef...

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Nurses’ perceptions of their pharmacology educational needs

Cited by 91 publications

References 25 publications

Knowledge and attitudes of Jordanian nursing students toward children’s pain assessment and management: A cross-sectional study

Knowledge and attitudes of Jordanian nursing students toward children’s pain assessment and management: A cross-sectional study

The educational needs of nursing staff taking care of patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Evaluating Student Learning in an Undergraduate Pharmacology Nursing Course Using Pharmacology Timed Tables

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