Assessing Nursing Students’ Self-Perceptions about Safe Medication Management: Design and Validation of a Tool, the NURSPeM
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Background
3. Research Question
4. Study Design
5. Method
5.1. Phase 1: Defining the Construct ‘Self-Perceptions about Safe Medication Management’ and Its Dimensions
5.2. Phase 2: Development of the Tool: Items and Dimensions
5.3. Phase 3: Content Validity
5.4. Phase 4: Psychometric Evaluation of the Tool
6. Analysis
7. Ethics
8. Results
8.1. Construct Validity
8.2. Reliability Analysis
9. Discussion
Development and Content of the Tool
10. Future Research
11. Limitations
12. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Areas of Content | Description of Content |
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Drug knowledge and safety | Knowledge about the drug, its dose(s), administration routes, and administration protocols and guidelines |
Thinking process | Reflection on the process of drug administration (prior preparation, administration, checking the effect, contextualizing the patient), including information, communication, reading the physician’s orders, dose scheduling, and informing patients about their treatment. |
Training in safe medication management | In-service training, updating knowledge, sources of information, awareness of responsibility in clinical practice |
Medication administration skills | Dose calculation, dilutions, and volumes, material needed for drug administration, contextualizing the individual patient, frequency, and practice of drug-dose calculations. |
N (%) | |
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University | |
A | 175 (31.3) |
B | 133 (23.8) |
C | 251 (44.9) |
Female | 448 (80.1) |
Age [mean (SD)] | 22.1 (4.8) |
Experience working in health service (yes) | 168 (30.1) |
Currently working in the health service (yes) | 66 (39.1) |
Academic year * | |
Second | 228 (40.9) |
Third | 191 (34.2) |
Fourth | 139 (24.9) |
Dimension | No. Items | % Variance | Cronbach’s Alpha |
---|---|---|---|
Questionnaire 1 | 0.882 | ||
Safety in drug prescription | 4 | 23.525 | 0.828 |
Familiarity with pharmacological concepts | 4 | 2.028 | 0.800 |
Relevance for professional practice | 1 * | 10.843 | 0.850 |
Factors associated with risk of error | 3 | 6.668 | 0.789 |
Importance of administering medication as prescribed | 4 | 2.490 | 0.649 |
Verifications prior to drug administration | 3 | 5.452 | 0.762 |
Thinking process in relation to medication management | 5 | 2.963 | 0.778 |
Questionnaire 2 | 0.893 | ||
Frequency of drug dose calculation | 11 | 36.11 | 0.886 |
Learning drug dose calculation | 2 ** | 8.22 | 0.772 |
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Fuster-Linares, P.; Alfonso-Arias, C.; Gallart Fernández-Puebla, A.; Rodríguez-Higueras, E.; García-Mayor, S.; Font-Jimenez, I.; Llaurado-Serra, M. Assessing Nursing Students’ Self-Perceptions about Safe Medication Management: Design and Validation of a Tool, the NURSPeM. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, 4663. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19084663
Fuster-Linares P, Alfonso-Arias C, Gallart Fernández-Puebla A, Rodríguez-Higueras E, García-Mayor S, Font-Jimenez I, Llaurado-Serra M. Assessing Nursing Students’ Self-Perceptions about Safe Medication Management: Design and Validation of a Tool, the NURSPeM. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2022; 19(8):4663. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19084663
Chicago/Turabian StyleFuster-Linares, Pilar, Cristina Alfonso-Arias, Alberto Gallart Fernández-Puebla, Encarna Rodríguez-Higueras, Silvia García-Mayor, Isabel Font-Jimenez, and Mireia Llaurado-Serra. 2022. "Assessing Nursing Students’ Self-Perceptions about Safe Medication Management: Design and Validation of a Tool, the NURSPeM" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 8: 4663. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19084663